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appeared on the right side of her belly, which continued with a small flux of 

 matter about 5 or d months, notwithstanding the many remedies I used to 

 cure her. 



About that time there appeared in the pudenda a bunch of something like 

 greasy wool, which being drawn forth, proved to be a ball, or wad of hair, 

 the size of a turkey's egg, immersed in an unctuous slime ; adhereing on one 

 side to a membrane as large as the palm of a man's hand : and in the middle 

 of it a small pyramidal bone, resembling a split tooth. On this the tumor 

 sunk, and the fiuor immediately ceased, and her 1 unary flux (which all this 

 while had not appeared) flowed as usual, and she has continued in perfect 

 health ever since, full Q months. 



This case, though rare and extraordinary, has sometimes happened to others. 



In Dr. Hook's Phil. Collect. N° 2, Dr. Tyson tells us he dissected a young 

 gentlewoman, and found the right testicle, or ovarium, swoln into two bags, 

 almost as large as a man's head, full of a pale serum, in which floated several 

 lumps of a soft fat matter, which dissolved in part when put into hot water. 

 One of those pieces was half as large as a man's fist, in which lay a great deal 

 of hair (as there did, though not so plentifully, in all the rest) of a silver 

 colour, soft, fine, strong, and above two feet long ; it was not fastened to, 

 nor seemed to grow from any part, but lay entangled in this matter, and in it a 

 bony substance exactly resembling that which is commonly called the eye or 

 dog-tooth. 



Another time, dissecting a woman 40 years old. Dr. Tyson found near the 

 uterus, a bag as large as a turkey's egg, and in it a fatty substance, like that 

 above mentioned, with a great quantity of light soft hair fastened to a fleshy 

 substance: within this cystis a bone, in some sort resembling a mandible, 

 having several sockets, in which were seated 3 dentes molares, or grinder 

 teeth, and a 4th not yet quite grown out. 



Dr. Grew tells us, that in the museum of the R. S. is such another tooth, 

 found by Dr. Tyson, after the same manner. And the Doctor himself tells us, 

 ubi supra, that Dr. Necdham found a tooth and hair in the ovarium of a dead 

 woman. And Dr. R. Hook says, that Dr. Samson found the like in two great 

 globose tumours depending on, or rather parts of the extended ovarium, wrapt 

 up in dissolvable and inflammable fet, of a yellow colour. 



About 10 years since. Sir Andrew Leak gave me a small bunch of hair, 

 being part of what had been found in the belly of a young woman at Deal, by 

 Mr. Jos. Nichols a surgeon there; the account of which is as follows: a wo- 

 man 30 years of age fell into a periodical fever, and afterward a total suppres- 

 •ion of her menses; which was soon followed by a pain and tumour in the 



