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VL. A Hifory of a large ay: in the Region of the Abdou 
men, containing Hair. By Joun WARREN, Efi; F. A. 4. 
- and M. S. and Profe efor of uam: and SREZ in the Uni- 
. werfity of Cambridge. 
N averfion to the malls of m incifons, | into fuch 
tumours as have appeared to have been feated within the 
cavity of the abdomen, has perhaps often been the reafon, why 
thofe of them, . which have happened to contain a fubftance lefs 
fluid than pus, have either induced a hectic, from a copious ab- 
forption of the thinner and more acrid parts ; or, have fpeedily 
been followed by a fatal termination.. The following hiftory, 
may in fome meafure evince the fafety of fuch large, and free 
openings, in cafes of this kind ; but the facts contained init, may 
alfo admit of ar application t 5 the purpofe of explaining. certain : 
phenomena. in the animal economy. . 
The production: of hair in the hurnan “Tadh iadi it has. 
often been the fubje& of. accurate examination, and ingenious 
fpeculation, has perhaps never yet been fatisfa&torily. accounted : 
for ; or to fay the leaft,. the folution is (ill deftitute of that fup- 
port and conviction, which in Wis other phyfiological ipanjogh ; 
have. fo. happily been: attained. : : 
Admitting the pofition, that many, if not all the interior. parts 
of the body, are furnithed with the neceflary fluids for digani 
of this fubftance, an accurate attention to the circum 
under which it is really produced, and-to the natüre of the 
parts in which it is moft frequently found, muft ufidoubt- 
edly afford very confiderable” light on the fabject ; and from a 
large number of fuch fads, ca carefally and jadicioully pert | 
it 
