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I. An Account 



an Uncommon Case 



Em]}hyscma ; and 



an external Abscess whose Contents tvere discharged 



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By EDWARD AUGUSTUS HOLYOKE 



p. A. A. 



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N Tuesday, July 15th, 1783, I ,\vas desired by the gen- 

 tleman who attended him, to visit a boy of about 

 twelve months old, who he told me had been most severely 

 handled by a peripneumony for ten days ; but that a very 

 uncommon tumonr lately appearing upon the child, made 

 him desirous I should see him. 



found a large soft elastick 



Upon viewing the patient, I 

 flatulent tumour, evidently crackling under the fino-ers wh 



as tumours arising from air in the cellular 



pressed upon, 



membrane, usually do. This tumour shewed itself all at once 



on the preceding evening, about seven or eidit o'clock, as the 



child lay in its mother's lap, durin 



fit of 



gh 



mg, on one side of the neck, near the rio-ht mastoid muscle 



and b\ 



the 



morning, when I first saw 



had spread across the neck, and up by the left ear, under 



the scalp 

 mv.scle on 



to cover the 



of the 



that side 



'otaphite 



up th 



the left side, it extended no further 



the ear: downward 



the paps on both sides, and 

 I7 increasing, especially upon 



spread on the breast below 

 each axilla, and was evident- 

 -ighing. 



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