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mit it, to feparate its impurities into the AbfceFs. I mu^ 
obferve to you,that for fix days before the Fever began,4he 
had the Cartemema very orderly ^ by Afiguft flic was cured, 
her fide healcl up, and v^ouldnot endure it to be converted 
into an Iflue ^ by October (he recovered her Flefii, and the 
Catame?nd returny, .which had been wanting ever fince. 
My/, andnQW, as you lately faw her, fiie is plump, fiefliy, 
clear and frefh Complexioned, haslitde or no Cough, and 
no foetid or- tabid expeftoration, and feems, and I bdieve is 
perfeftly cured, ' having for many months taken no Medi- 
cine. 
There are feveral circumflances in this Cafe, which I can- 
not forbear making fome remarks on. 
That there was an Ulcer in the Lungs, and that it has 
admitted of a Cure, contrary to the general opinion of Phy- 
ficians, Tliat this Ulcer did contain atleaft 2-fpoonfuIs, and 
nliift have been as large as a Hens Egg. That this Abfcefs 
aro(e from a colleftion,with an indifcenabie (\i any) Fever, 
and fo continued from Chriftmas to about the loth of My. 
The tender Membranous or Veficulary compofition of the 
Lungs feemto Juftifie this opinion,that it is almoft impoflible 
for them to heal, when there isaconfiderable diminution of 
them, the continual and indifpenfable nectffity of their mo- 
tion, very much hindring the coalition ot the VeficuU. 
Several parts of the Body afford a proper cement to unite 
and repair them, when hurt or dimini(h*d. Carious and 
broken Bones fend forth a Callus 5 when the Skin is con«« 
fum'd by Ulcers or Burns the parts afford a Cicatrix, which 
pretty well fupplies the defed: of the Skin. The Lungs 
^feparate a vifcid Pituita, which will be expanded into 
Fleaks like a Membrane 3 Mr Stringer^ Sarah Deeping and 
fome other Patients have brought up great quantities of 
them, and a little Boy at Mr Tolle/s in Kenfington^ Cough'd 
up feveral Pipes, form*d exaftly like the Bronchia^ and its 
divarications, and at firft view feem'd to be the internal 
Membrane* Mr Bnfere mentions this inftance ia the Phiib- 
fophi- 
