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Fields, feme fix or feven Years ago, he accidentally 
made a great Gafh or Wound in it with a fliarp Iron, 
which was very painful, but was cured by a burgeon, 
after the manner of an ordinary Wound ; the Cicatrice 
is flill to be fecn in it. 
This Excrcfcence having grown fo big, was attach’d 
to the Mufcle under the Left Eye, call’d Obliqtms minor 
or inferior^ to the Ear and its Mufcles, and to the 
Mufcle of the low’er Jaw, named De^rimens. By rea-^ 
fon of its great Bulk and Weight, it could not hang 
down freely without fome Support, therefore it refled 
on the top of the Shoulder, which made a confidera- 
ble Dimple in it, that is yet very obfervable; befides, 
it was holden up by the Man’s Hand in the Day- 
time, and laid on a Pillow in the Night* feafon. ' 
Some three or four Days before the total Excifion 
was made, the Patient obferved this Tumour begin to 
mortify at the lower end, which made him fo unea-. 
fy, that he took a Knife and cut off a good part of 
it. This occafion’d a great Haemorrhage; fo that he 
reckon’d there was loft a Scots Pint or four Pounds of 
Blood, before it could be ftopt. The Patient, after 
fb great Trouble and Pain, at laft applied himfelf to 
Mr- Gordon, Surgeon of the Place, who made a total 
Extirpation of it, on the 1 9th of Jnnmr% 1717. 
He made a clofe Ligature, taking in the Bafis of 
the Excrefcence, and all the loofe Skin, and contradf* 
ing it as much as poftible, he cut it entirely off with 
a (harp Pvafour. There gufhd out of the Excre- 
fcence, after it was cut off, and was lying on the 
Ground, as near as could be guefs’d, two Pounds of 
Blood; for it was nourifh’d by feveral large Biood- 
Veflels, perhaps by fome. Branches of the Carotide Ar- 
tery much iniarged, and other Blood- Veflels coming 
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