f 1049) 
Set fig' lit ^ , , ^ fcii: IfL^ 
The Cucumferenc€ of the nght Breaft 2, 7 
Ot the left Breaft 5, i * 
The length of the right Breaft from the Coller-bone i . 5 1 
TheleagthofthelettBreft i. 7.^. 
Th$ breadth of the right Breaft as it lyes i . i 
The breadth of the left i. 4 i 
Thusfarr^My lord^ the matter of fad, faithfully related. 
Now what fliould occafion thofe moDftrous tumors of the 
whole Breafts 5 and that lo fuddenly in one night , keeps us in 
great fufpence. There occurs nothing in this point faiiUa<5lo- 
ry in the writings of Plater tis , Rhodericm a Caftro , Fontmus , 
Toreflus , or any other of the Moderns^that I have feen, writing 
de Merhis Mulierum ^ fiiirable to what may be offer'd upon the 
2^4^4 01 thsCircuiation of the Blood , the Lymph seduds, and 
the Fafx Chjlifera rhoracica , and probably fome Cipilliry vef- 
felsbraiichmg thence (in their progrefs to tht Sub-cUvids) 
through the latercoftal Mafcles into the Breafts, I humbly 
beg pardon for this ledioufnefs &c. 
Plymouth ^ ]\i\m I ' ,1669 . 
7 his Narrative havingheenprBduced andread at the^. Socie* 
ty, and the Author ef tt thanleed for hts communkatidr^^ anddefi^ 
red to impart tvh at he fhoMft^rther obferve iruhis very odd Acci- 
dent^ hewaifleafedtowritei [ome while after ^ ajeeond Letter to 
the Pttbltjber , asfolhm 5 
fir. 
Had written to yv u ere this, but that I unbippily miflaid your 
Letter among other p ipers • but having , after much fearcb^ 
found it again, I return the Moft Honorable Society and 
you my very humble thanks for your invitation of me 
to contiaua my Obfervations about the vnufuail fwelling 
of the Breafts, heretofore defcribed. 
About the beginaing of this month, our prodigious womaa 
In Coughing brought up at feveral times fome blood 5 but this 
I foon took ofF> and at that time there appeared feveral cutane- 
ous ulcers i^ponher Breafts and other parts, abimde in t^e- 
fendis ( ut a fseminis edocebar ) which laft I cured 5 but thofe on 
her breafts in part remain J and daily difcharge, by thefoleap- 
G gggg . plicacioa 
