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I. A Letter from Dr William Mufgrave, F R. S. 
to the Publijher^ concerning a very extraordinary, 
PotW/V^ Hemorrhage. 
SIR, 
I Some years fince received an account of a farprizing ill- 
nefs, froni/the perfon who had labour'd under it ; Tiie' 
fame has been attefted to me by his )Vife and feveral of 
his acquaintance, and therefore I think it may deferve 
Credit. 
Mr H. for^ierly a Servant to ^een Dowager, of late 
to Mrs Jenningr, oi Burton in Somerfetjhire y had ("from 
his Infancy, as he has been inform^, but to his certain < 
knowltedge^ from as far back as he can remember, up to 
the twenty f ourth year of his age, a Periodical Hemorrhage 
in one of his Thumbs. 
ThsTime oi the Eruption was about the full of the 
Moon, feldom more than a day before or after it. The 
Orifice (to fpeak more exaftlyj on the Right fide of the 
Nail of the Left Thumb. He has not known the Blood 
to be lefs in weight at any one Turn, or Periodical Dif- 
eharge, than fouc ounces 5 and is pofitive, that when he 
catne to be fixteen years of age, the quantity was then en- 
creas'd to half a pound at each eruption 5 he and his 
friends having often view'd the quantity, and found it to 
be thus much* 
The Manner of the Flux was alfo remarkable ^ for, 
without any Pain of Head, Streightnefs of Breath, or any 
figns of Fulneft, or other Symptoms whatever obferved 
by him, excepting only a ftiffnefs, on the utmoft joynt 
of 
