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I know not what to call ir, but I drew it as well as I 
could from Two he brought me. He coughs them i\p 
after a continued Coughing of almoft half a Day or 
Night, and knows when they come, at the firft feeling 
great Pains round his Cheft ; he has voided Hundreds of 
them in this Three Years, and all alike, though fome 
a great deal bigger, and many lefs than the Delcription, 
They dont feem, he faith, to have Life,- but he has 
prefs'd a Sliminefs out of the Body, and fo through that 
part which feems to be the Head. He is now very 
meager, and complains of great Pains about his Chell 
and Back Part anfwerable to it. I beg your Opinion 
herein ; I have juft now communicated it to our Phy- 
ficians, and humbly crave your Pardon for the Trouble. 
Fid.Tah, Fig. i. which has a great many more 
Fibrils toward the latter End than I exprefs, and fcems 
to be very nervous. 
Dr» LifterV Opinion of this Ohfer^ation. 
THele are figured in the remoter and deeper Bran- 
ches of the Afpera Arteria : and therefore fb dif- 
ficult to get up. They are nothing elfe but the vifcous 
Excretions of the fmall Glands hard baked in thofe Molds, 
whofe Form they Receive ; and may, if we flrain a 
Metaphor, be called Polypus's of the Lungs. 
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