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The Account that {he gave of the Occafion of it was, 
that her Husband, being a paflionate Man, took her by 
the Throat one Day as file was crying out upon fome 
Occafion or other, and grip’d her To hard as almoft to 
throttle her. 
She was then with Child, and immediately perceiv’d 
fomething of a Pain a little above her Heart, and a few 
Days afterwards there appeared a Tumour about the 
Bignefs of the Top of her Finger, juft above the Ster- 
num, and fo continued without Encreafe or Pulfation, 
till (lie was brought to Bed, when it began to be enlarg- 
ed, upon her having a hard Labour , agreeable to what 
Practitioners have obferv’d, that Accidents of this Na- 
ture often, happen to Women in Labour. 
This was about four Years fince, and from that Time 
it had continued gradually encreafing, until it was ar- 
rived to almoft the higheft Pitch of Extenfion ; and fhe 
had all along been troubl’d with a Palpitation, Pain and 
Straitnefs within the Thorax , great Interruptions in her 
Reft, and frequent Sinkings, together with a conftant 
beating along the Cheft up to the Tumour * in which 
like wife there was a Pulfation correfpondent to the regu- 
lar Pulfe, (baking the Tumour at every Stroke, and 
manifeft to the Eye as well as the Touch. Notwith- 
, (landing this file was otherwife hearty, had her Menfes 
regularly, had a good Appetite, and was moftly chear- 
ful and lively, and never more fo than juft before the 
fatal Period of the Tumour. 
The Apex of the Tumour, which was towards the 
Middle, in the prominent Part of it was beginning to 
mortifie, through an over Diftenfion, and the common 
outward Integuments were the firft that feemed to buf- 
fer : But the Diftenfion continuing, the Mortification 
encreas’d, 
