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V. A Letter from Peter Templeman, M.D. 
to Wm. Battie, M. 2). Fellow of the Royal 
College of Phyficians, London, and F.R.S . 
concerning a Polypus at the Heart, and a 
Scirrhous Tumour of the* Uterus. 
SIR, 
Head Nov. z 7 .'~T~'HE following Cafe appearing to 
'746. me to be a remarkable Inftance of 
a Rolypus at the Heart, and of a fcirrhous Uterus , I 
immediately determined to communicate it to you. 
ANN HICKS was brought to the Workhoufe 
of St. Andrew’s Holborn on Saturday the 15 th of 
November , 1746. Her Complaints were, a Diffi- 
culty of Breathing, from a Cold fhe had caught about 
a Fortnight before, with a violent Pain and Palpi- 
tation of her Heart. The Pulfe was fcarce percepti- 
ble. The Surgeon, Mr. Tait, being prefent, I order’d 
him to open a Vein 5 but to keep his Finger on the 
Pulfe ; and if it did not rife on her lofing a little 
Blood, immediately to defift. 
Upon her lofing an Ounce or two of Blood, the 
Pulfe grew more languid, and he accordingly de- 
fined. I then order’d a large Blifter to be applied to 
her Neck, and gave her oily Medicines with the vo- 
volatile Salts. \ did not vifit at the Workhoufe 
again till the IFednefday following, when I found her 
much 
