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least alteration ; nor was there ever after this time any appearance of any mucus 

 being secreted by the intestinal glands, he never going to stool above once in 

 a week, and then there came away a few lumps of excrement as hard as pieces 

 of wood; which were expelled with much labour and fatigue; though he gene- 

 rally took an oily clyster to render it more easy, and washed down his medicines 

 with a soapy draught. 



The joint of the hip was now become quite stiff, all the inguinal glands 

 being loaded with the same kind of matter of which the other tumours seemed 

 to be composed ; and a large cluster more of them might be felt under the 

 glutei muscles, and behind the trochanter. 



The cinnabar was now left off, and mercurial unction used; a proper quan- 

 tity being rubbed in every night, stopping now-and-then to see what turn it 

 would take ; and in this course he continued for more than a month, but 

 without any benefit, nor did the mercury produce any visible effect on him. 



Sir Edward Hulse, being called in, directed the burnt sponge, which he 

 took for some time, till, growing worse and weaker, he determined to try 

 Mr. Ward. He took his sweating and purging medicines 2 or 3 times, but 

 found no sort of effect from them ; and being now quite tired of physic, and 

 reduced extremely low, he determined to pass the rest of his time as easily as 

 he could, by gradually increasing his opiate; and in this manner languished, 

 incapable of stirring or helping himself, till the 2d of May 1740, and then 

 died. 



For a considerable time before he died, he was nourished by fluids only: 

 yet, as soon as ever they were received into the stomach, in however small a 

 quantity, they gave him an acute pain at the bottom of his belly, just above the 

 pubes. For 2 months, or more, before his death, he could never make any 

 water while he was up, but always made a good deal at different times when in 

 bed. Soon after his return to London, Mr. P. opened the tumour he had 

 taken out of his thigh 2 years before, and found the inside of it ossified. 



On dissection, the first thing that offered was a large tumour on the sternum, 

 which had been perceived about 3 months before he died: it was as large as a 

 turkey's egg, and so hard and immoveable, that Mr. P. was in doubt whether 

 it was upon or under the bone. On removing the skin, it appjeared covered 

 by the expansion of the tendons of the intercostal muscles, and the periosteum: 

 this coat being taken off, it was of a suetty kind of substance for about half 

 an inch deep; and below this was a kind of cartilage, intermixed with a great 

 many bony particles. Mr. P. then shaved off all this diseased body even with 

 the surface of the rest of the sternum, but found no bone, it being quite dis- 



