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V. The Original of a PoIypU3 difco^erd, by Mr. 
Giles, fworn Surgeon at St. Come, being 
tranfated from the frogres de la Medecine 
of Monfteur Btumt^ Art, III. Journal. IIL 
I N the^ Month of Jfdne 1684, I was called to fee Ma- 
I dam who had a Polypus in the right Noftnl ; 
after I had examined the marks of it which were to be 
loft, white, and without pain ; I endeavoured to'pull it 
out, which I did without pain or any bad accident. 
But after this Extradion, flie ftill felt (bme trouble in 
her Nofe, and moifture did pafs with difficulty from the 
Nofe to the Throat. This engaged me, feeing no more 
in the Noftrils to look into the Mouth, where I percei- 
ved behind the Vvula, a ftrange body of the bignefs of 
half a Nut, which I judged to be a portion of the fame 
Polypus. In view of this I determin'd to draw it out, 
being encouraged by the advice of Monfieur FeJe, curi- 
ous both in Phyfick and Philofbphy, and of Monfieur 
f^ary a raofl expert Surgeon. Having palled it out in 
their prefence, we found it of an extraordinary lhape ; 
the Piece by which I laid hold of it was hard, and of a 
dark brown ; it was faflned by two Br arichev which 
feem'd to have taken their ftiape in the Nofe, being each 
of them as big as a fweet Almond ; their fubftance was 
fofter, and whiter. Befides thefe three parts, it had a 
little flalk fomething red, of the bignefs of a Cherry- 
ftalk : There was nor a drop of Blood fpilt, and the Pa- 
tient felt no pain in the Operation ; all trouble was re- 
moved, and the liquor pafTed eafily. 
In all this there is nothing extraordinary for ma- 
ny Practitioners might have met with the like. At the 
end of two Years the Patient died of a malignant Fever; 
and 
