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XXIV. A Letter from Mr. James Yonge, F. R. S. 
to Dr. Hans Sloane, R. S. Seer, containing the 
Cafe of a Woman who had her Menfes regularly 
to 70 Tears of Age. 
T Lomerton, fifteen Miles from this Town, dy’d lately 
a Woman of Eighty fix Years old 5 who to the Age 
of feventy had her Menfes plentiful and regular. At 
that time they ceafed, and foon after followed the like 
Eflux from the Hemorrhoids, which continued till (he got 
on the wrong fide of Fourfcore. 
She was till then healthful and ftrong, of a vigorous 
Afpeft, fmooth, plump,, and florid in Countenance, like 
one not half fo Old : Her Appetite was very good ^ her 
Intellects clear and found 5 and her fight fo perfeft, that 
fhe could to the iaft thread a Needle, and read fmall 
Print without Glaffes. 
When that Flux ceafed, fhe became Gouty ; and about 
one Year before (he dy’d, there arofe an Apoftumation 
on one of her Wafts, which open’d, and difeharged 
much chalky Matter and fome Stones. The Day fhe 
dy’d, (he arofe out of her Bed 5 and after performing 
ibtne Chriffian Devotions, expired. 
She was never fick before the Hemorrhoidal Flux ftopf, 
except once at Exeter , where fhe was born, and then 
lived, fhe became infe&ed with what they called the 
Plague: It ended in a critical Abcefs in one of the E- 
smn&Qries; and which is very ftrange, during all the time 
Ply mouth, July 17. 1713. 
SIR, 
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