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Vll. Jn, Extraordinary Cafe of a CoJiiVe ^erfon^ in 
4 Letter from Mr B. Sherman to Dr Bcefton of 
Ipfwich J with a Note m the fame hy Mr William 
Cowpcr, F. % S. 
SIM, 
THis perfon, whofe Name was Thomas Phillipf oi 
Eajiharp^ near Keldon in Effex^ was as well in eve- 
vy refpeft as a Child could poffibly be till he was a year 
and a quarter old ^ at which time a very ftrange and al- 
moft continual rumbling in his Inteftines feiz*d him, the 
confequence was a violent Loofencfs, for which all the 
Phyficians near the place could find no Remedy : But at 
laft, v/hen they delpaired of the Ghilds Life, the Loofe- 
nefs terminated in luch an unufual Obftruftion, that he 
did not go to„ Stole for a fortnight or three weeky toge- 
ther, and from three weeks it proceeded gradually to the 
intervals oi 17 or 18 weeks, and fo continued till be came 
to be about the age of fifteen, when his Body refumed 
its natural temper, which lafted 4 or 5 years, but then 
the Obftruftion returned, and continued, or rather in- 
creas'd till he dyed 5 for it was cuftomary with him in 
the laft years of his Life not to evacuate any manner of 
Excrement under the interval of nineteen or twenty weeks, 
and fometimes ( twice at leaft ) he had no difcharge for 
one or two and twenty weeks together. He lived to be 
!iear 23 years of Age, and walked about almoft to thehour 
of his Deaths for he was fuddenly feiz'd with very fick 
Fi|s ( but could not Vomit) , two or three of which Fits 
carry d him oifin a few hours j aiid when he dy'd it was 
