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The fimbriae were loose and fluctuating. On examining farther into the pelvis, 

 there was near 6 oz. of fetid matter, lying between the rectum and uterus, 

 which near its neck, was perforated, and the parts were very rotten. From its 

 neck, almost to the extremity of the vaginae, the muscles of the anus were 

 nearly destroyed. There were some few indurated little tumours adhering 

 loosely to the cyst of the foetus. There were several little parts appeared like 

 carious bones found in the matter contained in the pelvis. 



A Letter from Mr. John Powell, to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Pr. R. S. &c. con- 

 cerning a Gentlewoman who voided, with her Urine, hairy crustaceous Sub- 

 stances. To which is annexed Sir Hans Shanes Answer, containing several 

 Observations of extraordinary Substances voided by the Urinary Passages. 

 N" 460, p. 699. 



A worthy divine's daughter of the neighbourhood of Pembroke, had voided 

 for nearly 2 years preceding this account, with her urine, various hairy crusta- 

 ceous substances. She was near 40 years of age, and had been married about 

 17 years, and had a child about 12 years before, that lived about 9 weeks. 



About two years before, she was seized with a stoppage in her urine, a small 

 pain in her bladder, and a great pain in the bottom of her feet, with the mak- 

 ing of whitish water like whey ; and she had then a great weakness in her 

 limbs, and a pain in her bowels; for which a gentleman ordered her to go into 

 the cold bath, by which she found great benefit for the pains in her limbs ; but 

 the pain in making water rather increased, and then her urine began to grow 

 fetid ; and about Christmas 2 years preceding, she voided the largest of the 

 things in the box ;* without any very great pain then, as she had taken a quiet- 

 ing draught that night to compose her ; but, almost ever after, they put her 

 to most exquisite pain before she can get them off; and she was commonly 

 obliged to take the small part of the hairy part between her fingers, before she 

 could get them off; and often a good deal of blood came off with her plucking 

 them, which made her very sore inwardly. 



On using gentle evacuations, with emollient decoctions, &c. she got much 

 better; insomuch, that she undertook a journey into Herefordshire, and staid 

 there near 2 months ; but her pains became worse, and more troublesome, 

 after her return home ; and she then voided great quantities of those large sub- 

 stances, as well as small, contained in the box, and her urine got extraordinarily 

 ropy and fetid, notwithstanding all the endeavours of another gentleman and 

 Mr. P. ; and very often the substance she voided would be so stift' and ropy, 



• Mr. P. sent a quantity of tlie hairy crustaceous substances, voided by this woman, in a box to 

 Sir Hans Sloane. 



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