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of the Curious and Ingenious, give a true and faith- j 
ful Account of an extraordinary Excreicence cut off 
from the Cheek of a Man, which weighed Nineteen 
Pounds, and the Patient entirely recover’d in few 
Weeks time. I never before faw the like, nor never 
read of it in any Author, tho’ I have confulted ma- 
ny on the Head. This Excrefcence is preferved a- I 
mong the Rarities of the College of Phyficians at £• 
dinhurgh. The Phyfician concern’d in this Affair, was 
Dr. Alexander Rujfel of Elgine, a learned and ingenious 
Man, and the Operator was the ingenious Mr. George 
Cordon of Keithf from whom 1 had the following Infer. ! 
mation. I i 
Alexander Palmer, of the Parifli of Keith, in’ the ' 
County of Bamf, in the North of Scotland, now about | 
Fifty Four Years of Age, obferved, when about Twenty 
Seven, a little hard Swelling in the Mufcle of the lower 
Jaw on the Left Side, without any Hurt or mam'fefl: 
Occafion, which at firfl: went on flowly, but afterwards 
it proceeded more quickly, and the older it grew, it 
{till came on the fafter; until it increafed to a prodi- 
gious Bulk and Weight : From the fir ft Appearance of 
this Tumour to the total Excifion of it, there were a- 
bout Twenty Seven Years. He had exceflive Fains 
and Uneafinefs in it, and at laft it mightily extenua- 
ted and emaciated him, who was otherwife a flrong 
and robuft Man. 
This Excrefcence was of the natural Colour of the 
Skin, and feem’d to be an Atheroma being a glandulous 
Subftance with feveral big Blood-VefTels in it. and had j 
Hair growing on it, as on the other i arts of the !' 
Body, as may yet be feen. It was almoft round and ■ 
very hard, and was as fenfible as any other Parc of the j 
Body ; for, when the poor Man was working in the i 
Fields, I ( 
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