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which proved his Death : For before the Breach, 
and while the Scone roll’d in his Stomach, he was 
very well. 
The largeft Stone found in any Animal that the 
Philofophical Tranfa^tons give an account of, 
weighed but four Pounds, tour Ounces. 
VIL An Account of a Polypus coughed up from 
the Windpipe ; in a Letter from the Ingenious 
Dr. Samber, Phyjician at Salisbury, to. Dr* 
Jurin, Seer, R. S. 
HE 1 5th of lad Dtcemher at 10 at Night, I was 
fent tor to one Mr. Tompfotty an Officer of the 
Excife in this Town, who was taken with fo violent 
a Flux of Blood, that in a ffiort (pace of time he lo.T 
near three pounds of Blood, as near as we could 
judge : By the time I came, it was pretty well over ; 
only he feem’d to have fomething, when he cough’d, 
that Buck in the Paflage, which he could not get up, 
and by its rattling lthought.it very loofe. I order’d 
what I thought proper in fuch a cafe,and left him : Next 
Morning they told me, that half an hour after I w'as gone, 
he had cough’d up what they fhew’d me on a Sheet 
of Paper, which Mr Gifford the Apothecary ('a very 
honeft Man, and very ingenious in his Bufinefs) had 
defir’d them to keep till I came. Upon putting it into 
Water', I found it a Polypus ; and, as I think, a very 
remarkable one. I here fend you a draught of it 
Fig. exactly done by a Painter fince dead. I could 
find by my Blow-pipe , that it w^as hollow ,* but 
its being torn off with fuch violence, has made fo 
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