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VI. Tart of a Letter from Tho Short, M. T>. 
to Sir Hans Sloane, Tar 1 . Tr. <%. S. concern- 
ing an extraordinary Impoftumation of the 
***+**»• Had a Patient, who died lately of an Im- 
X pojtumation of the Liver : 1 open’d him, 
and out of. the lowt-ft and thinneft Lobes I took 
fix Quarts of purulent, thick, mod intolerably 
fetid, reddilh- brown Matter, very acid ; for no 
fooner was it expofed a little to the open Air, than 
it fermented exceedingly. The Patient had drain- 
ed off the thinner Part the laft Week of his Life 
by violent Vomiting ; and purging to thirty or forty 
Stools a Day, and as many Vomits, it was thrown 
into the Duodenum by the Duttus Cholidocbus com- 
munis , and there pumped up and thrown out, both 
by its Sharpnefs and Stimulation. All the upper 
Part of the Liver to about an Inch below the Gall- 
bladder was found. The Tumour had fo comprefled 
the right Kidney, that it was emaciated away t .els 
than the Glandula Renalis. * * * From, 
Liver, 
V- „ V- . 
; : ■ 
Honoured Sir. 
Sheffield , June n. 1731. 
SIR, 
Tour mojl obliged humble Servant , 
Tho. Short. 
ERRATA. 
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