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VI A Letter from A//% Atkinfon, Surgeon hi 
White^Chappel : Concerning an ImfojlhumatU 
on in the Stomach, To 4he fame, 
SJ R, ’ 
^ H E Cafe you defire a particular account of, 
£ was as follows. I had a Patient atout feven 
Years ago, which had a large Tumour on the upper 
part of her Belly, it was hard and painful, but did 
not alter the natural colour of the Skin, and had been 
three Months in coming. I applied a warm Gum 
Plaifter to it, which in about a Fortnights time brought 
it to a Suppuration. T then applied a Cauflick about 
the bignefs of a Shilling; when the Efchar fell off] I 
faw a (olid kind of Subftance appear in the Orifice, I 
laid hold of it with my Forcefs, and pulled it gently 
towards me- upon which there thrufl; forcibly out a 
quantity 'of it, that near fill’d my Hand, fo I drefl: 
it. Next drcffing, the fame Subffance appear’d again, 
which on her Braining, fofced out near twice as much 
as before. I was at a greac Jofs to determine what this 
BufT w^as, but at laB concluded it was the Omentum it 
felf, in which Opinion I was confirm’d by Tome other 
Surgeons I fliew^’d it to. I was Bill in doubt, whether 
the Stomach was concerned in this Cafe or not, till 
the next Removal of the DreBings, at which there 
fpurted out above half a Pint of Ale in a full Stream, 
which was part of a Pint flie had drunk a little 
while before. I now concluded the Cafe mortal, how- 
ever, I ordered her to keep her Bed, to lie con- 
Bantly upon her Back, and feed on things of cafie 
DigeBion. 
