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An Extraft Concerning a Deformed Humane 
S K V L L, from the fame M.DDpre, 
Nicholas Erodes, of Thirty Years of Age, having 
been Afflicted for the fpace of Ten Years with 
an IncefTant Head-ach, (which for the laft Twelve 
Months before his Deceafe had been more violent than 
formerly , and deprived him of his Sight) upon the 
i^th oi March, 1697. was received into khe Hotel 
Dieu. After his Head was ftiaved, there appeared a 
large Tumor, which extended it felf over the Hairy 
ScaJp. In the midft of the left Parietal -bone , there 
W2ls thePulfation of an Artery, and a fmall Fluduation, 
the reft pf the Tumor being exceeding hard. M. Dupre, 
fearing this might be an Aneurifm, was unwilling to 
open the Tumor, till he was conftrained to it, by the 
importunate Intreaties of the Patient^ who chofe rather 
the Hazard of his Life, than any longer to endure foex- 
quifite a Torment, As foon as an Aperture was made, 
there iflu^ out a quantity of thick concreted Blood,which 
wet the Bolfters at every Dr effing. The Second day he 
felt a hard Body with his Probe, loofe in the Flefb, 
which being taken out, appeared to be a fmall Frag- 
ment of a Bone Exfoliated, lefembling a fmall Comb- 
brufl). Unon the Fourjh day the Patient dy^d. 
In DifTedling the Head, the Tumified part of the 
Skull appeared to arife more than an Inch above the 
found Bone. The whole Swelling of the Cranium was 
made up of feveral Subfisnces, not unlike little Horhs, 
or innumerable fmall hollow Cones, with their points 
downwards j befides a great number of Bony Fibres, 
ftreight, ftiff , and pointed, refembling the Teafels ufed 
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