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Ih | Café of a remarkably large Tumour, found in the Cavity 
= of the Abdomen. - lly JosHua Fisusn, Fudad. and M.S. , 
ài [^s HE | fübje& c of the following 1 memoir, was a a | woman of 
ftrong habit, rather  fpare than grofs, , and o of ar an | active dif- 
pofition. She lived in a married ftate-from early life, but ne- 
ver had a child; was not peculiarly fubje& to any  diforder, | eX~ 
cept. fome florid c cutaneous ‘eruptions, t till at about the ufual ti time 
of life the catamenia ceafed. Soon after that ; period the became 
fenfible s an unufual fullneís i in the abdomen, which continu- 
ed. almoft imperceptibly increafing, without any difagreeable 
fymptoms, till fhe was near fixty years old, about two years 
before * death. She then complained of a pain in. the left 
riac WEST which became íeníb. ' tumefied ; ; the 
fiftenfi iif thence increafed, and {pread over the 
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whole abdomen. 
_I firt faw her between four d five months before her 
death ; I found the abdomen, very large and tenfe, eípecially on 
the left fide, which was the moft painful : the veffels in her 
head and arms, were full and turgid, while an inanition had 
taken place in the lower extremities, with a variety of fymp-, 
tams arifing from an unequal diftribution. of the circulating 
fluids and nervous influence; But the immediate caufe of her 
principal complaints was an inflammation, which appeared to 
be feated forward of the, recium ; although ícarcely any part of 
the abdomen was exempt from attacks of. the moft excruciating 
pain at intervals, yet the lower and pofterior parts were principally 
affected ; and while a fuppuration was forming (which had pro- 
bably taken place feveral times before I faw her) the pain dart-. 
ed a little backward. and downward, and terminated in the 
| | Uuu rectum, 
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