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touch’d ; the Lead had lain in the Stomach about eight 
Months, and the Brafs Pin above-mentioned above 
twelve. It was very eafy to guels at the time thofe dif- 
ferent pieces of Iron had been in the Stomach, in confi- 
dering how much one piece had fuffered more than the 
.other. This Obfervation is like to give a check to the 
Notion of thofe who believ’d that Oltridges did diflblve 
Brafs and Iron by Fridion only ; for if fo, I fee little 
reafon why the Iron Branches of the Compaffes ihould 
have been found fo very much worn out, and the Brafs 
Branches notin the leall impair’d. Mr. Ricks\ Son, who 
open’d him, told me. That the Stomach had been no 
ways wounded orindamag’d 5 which does not appear to 
me probable, when the Patient was known to have vo- 
mited and evacuated Blood by Stole for fix Weeks before 
he dyed, as I have already mention’d. It could have 
been wifh’d the Gullet and Guts had likewife been 0- 
pen’d j for ’tis plain, fome of the Pieces had pafTed the 
Pylorus^ as the Pegs of the Knife ; and perhaps fome fmal- 
ler Pieces than thofe that were found in the Stomach, 
might have been forc’d thither. It’s needfary to re- 
mark, That this Fellow, from his Youth, had accuftom- 
ed himfef to fwallow large Morfels, Glutton like, and 
without Chewing ; which, no doubt, made the PalTagc 
of the Oefophagus wider, and difpofed it to give Entrance 
to all tliole Extraneous Bodies. It may oe alfo taken 
notice, Tliat this Idiot, and fometimes Mad Fellow, 
was never known to Seep a Wink, tho’ he was often 
compcll’d to go to Bed, and' had, to inclint him to 
Sleep, been very much harrafs’d and fatigu’d before : 
he was always known to eat three times as muCh as the 
reft of Mankind, and when furious, to grow quiet upon 
the approach of Meat. ,, 
Mr. Vandenheyde^ another famous Surgeon of OJlend^ 
did procure me the fight of the largeft Tumour I ever 
yet fa w, which is the fecond Cafe I have promifed to de- 
feribe 
