[/37] 
An account of a Vohj^m found in the heart of a perfon 
that Epileptical, at Oxon. by G. M B. /t/- 
low c/Wadham Colledge and of the Royal Society. 
SEveral Authors (hat have been curious to cultivate 
the Anatomy of difeasd Bodies do fo frequently men- 
tion preternatural Concretions in the heart and bIoad-vef« 
fels efpecially of perfons dead in lingring 2.Vx& chronical 
Bifec^fes, that theprefent difcourfemay very well feem 
Juperfluous to thofe who are better inftrudled el bwhere. 
But however, Sir, fince you think it worth while to for- 
nifli your papers with a thing of this nature, I will not 
dilute the tasJ^ you have put upon me, and though the 
fair Figure you have beftow'd on the Polypus might ex- 
cufe my farther dejcription of the thitig it fel"^^ yet lince 
it was attended with fome unufual circumjiances not ta- 
ken notice of by anatomical Writers, v*^hich may con- 
duce to t\\z determining fome doubts and queftions con- 
cerning the nature^ growth and duration oi fuch ///^^ con- 
cretions^ it cannot be ungrateful a little to enlarge our 
Obfervations on the Subject; and that it may be done to 
the better purpofe it will not be amifs to premife a defcri- 
ptionof thtperfon, in whom the Po/j/?^// was found, to- 
gether with the Symptoms he labour'd under, as alfo an 
account of other particulars that occurr d in the dijfeSlion^ 
that by confidering the Concomitant Irregularities 
in the other parts of his Body, whofe caufes are more cip- 
parent, we may make mott probable Conjectures concern- 
ing the Gccafcon and production of this ftrange and ano- 
malous fub^ancein his Heart, 
Indeed the /^^r/i;^, whofe body was the fubjed: of our 
Difle£tion, was a poor labouring man, a mcer fti anger 
in the Town, deititute of Relations, and dy'd in the 
ftreet fuddenly, fothat there cannot be cxpcOicd/o par- 
O z ticu.'ar 
