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lit An Acmnt of i ^rfon dimfed of a ScMous 
Tmor in his Mreajl, % Mr Tho, Greenhillj, 
Surgeon. 
MR. J, D. departed this Life the firft of this ia- 
ftant, and was fuppofed to dye of a Gonfumpti- 
on 3 forafmuch as 14 months before he had been violently 
feized with an Inflamation of his Lungs, accompanied wich 
a (harp Feaver, Difficulty of Breathing, Cough, acute 
Stiches, and Pleuritick Pains, with a f pitting Blood, &c. 
He was bled largely in the beginning 5 and often re- 
peated it during his Sicknefs : continually taking fuch pro- 
per Remedies, as were prefcribed him. But noTwithftand- 
ing about E^e^er, there appeared a Tumour on the Breaft 
Bone, Pap, and Pcftorai Mufcle, of the Left Side, with a 
fulnefs under the Axil/a: From whence there v/as con- 
jeftured to be a colleftion of Purulent Matter in the Cavity 
of the Thorax J and that the Sternon was foul. The firft 
from the aforefaid Tumors, and his fpitring a bloody and 
purulent Matter,and the latter from the rifing and inequality 
of that Part. But opening him the third of this month, I 
found his Cafe very different and furprizing, which feveral 
judicious perfons that attended him in his ficknefsjand were 
prefent when he was opened, can teftifie* For fo foon as I 
had divided and removed the common teguments of the 
Thorax^ I found, inftead of a rifing of the Bone with Ca- 
riofity, only an oblong tumor, about four fingers in length, 
and two in breadth, and a proportionate thicknefs, vyeigh» 
ing about 3 ounces, it extended itfelf perpendicularly, on 
thefuperficiesof that part of the Sternon^ which joyns with 
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