III. A Letter from Mr Jonathan Kay^ Chyrurgeon 
in Newport, Shropfhire^ concerning a firange 
Cmcer^ of which his Father dpa. 
March if^ie 4#^, 1 7C|. 
IN your laft you defired an account of my Father's Can^ 
cer, which I here fend you, as near as I can remember, 
it being 20 years fince he dy-ed, and I being then but 
young, could not make thofe remarks upon it, as another 
"might have done, and it's poffible might forget fome- 
thing material too. *It took its rife from a fmall bruife 
on the Os Jugale^ and in procefs of time fpreadit felf over 
the whole Cheek 3 and notwithftanding the endeavours 
of the moft eminent Surgeons in thofe parts where he 
lived, vi%. Money oi Chefier^ Clarke oi Bridgnorth, znd 
Cotton of Burton u^on Trent, it ulcerated his Eye rounds 
which I faw him take out with his own Hand 5 and af- 
terwards extended it felf to his Ear, and [through his 
Cheek into his Mouth, and acrofs the upper part of his 
Nofe, and perforated the Bone there : It likewife over- 
run that fidg of his Forehead, fouling the Os Frontis^ 
which came away in pieces, leaving the Dura Mater bare 
as broad as a Half-Grown 5 which rifing through the per- 
foration of the Cranium, in a few days putrified and ex- 
pofed the Brain it felf, and feveral portions of it came 
' away/refh and untainted 5 and that which is moftftrange^ 
he perfectly retained his fenfes, and rofe every day to 
drefs the Ulcer himfelf, till a confiderable quantity of 
the Brain was come away 5 and when he was confined to 
his Bed, bis Speech firft failed, and he dyed about 4 days 
after, his Brain being totally confumed, and nothing re- 
main- 
