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I. A Relation of an Idiot at Oftend with two 
other Chirurgical Cafes, Mr, Claud. Amijand; 
in a Letter to , Mr, Wilfon : Communicated by 
Mr. de la Page. 
Ghefit^ January the 30th, N, S, 1708. 
i ^IS now about five Weeks, fince an Idiot from his 
■ j[^ Infancy ’died at OJiendy the place of his Birth, in 
the 33d Year of his Age; his Death having been prece- 
ded with twelve. Days continual remitting Fever, and a 
confiderable Tumour and Pain about the Region of the 
Liver. His Brother, in whofe’Houfe he had been a con- 
ftant Dweller, being -defirous to know the Caufc of it, 
defired an Eminent Surgeon, (who at that 
time had the Cure of me) to open him ; but as ^ the A- 
perture was to be perform’d gratis^ he put it oif, and 
fent his -Son, 'lik’ewife''Mafi:er Surgeon of the lame 
City, with his Servant ; wlio did the Work in pre fence 
of the Brother of the Deceafed and a Nun, brought 
thither by thedefireof difcovering'the Caufe of her Spit- 
ting or Vomiting of Blood, to which, this Fellow had 
been very liable, (as wefi^as to bloody Stoles^ for fix 
Weeks before his Deatli. • A''l3,rge Abcels or Impofihumc 
* was found in each-Lobe, ;of the .Liver, whole Bulk did 
far exceed the ordinary Stint. The Brother was fatis-» . 
'fied with this Dilcovery, and would have had the Sur- 
geon to feek no further ; but he was perfwaded, at the ! 
prelfiiig Sollicitations of the Nun, to let the Stomach be : 
s opened, which was found extreamly contra died and pon- ' 
dejL'Ous.; and indeed it was thought no Wonder, when 1 
upon I 
