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fcrfte to you. This Tumour is of a Schirrous Nature, 
fprmgmg from the Thigh-bone, fomewhat terniina to 
that of a Cancerous. It firft took its rife about two 
Years ago, in a Child of lo Years Old, juft above the 
PatA, without any evident caufe, and Iiath, notwitli- 
ftandingallpoffiblecare, expanded it felffo, that it now 
occupies the vtdiole Thigh tb the very Groin and has ex - 
tended It to above a Dutch Yard in Circumference. As 
« encreafes very much daily, itmuft foon exliauft the 
Patients Strength. TheSui-geon intends to open him 
and to make, after his Death, two Draugiits, the one 
of the Tumour, and another of what he fhall difeover 
in the DilTeaion ; and has promifed to fend them both 
to me with a Relation, to get inferted in Dr. 
Obfervations, with the former Account ; If they keen 
their Word, I fhall fakecare.to have them communS 
ted to you in time. 
Whilft I am upon thefe odd Cafes, I can’t but take 
notice of a very remarkable FracTure of the Skull, we 
had lalt Campaign in our Hofpital here ; it was in the 
interior part of the Si^uamofe Hoik, and occafioned bv i 
■ Splinter of a Fellow Soldier’s Piece burfting, tliatftruck 
. him there. Some time had pafs’d, before the Accidents 
.made us fiifpeft a Fraflure, and obliged us to make a 
'Triangular Incifion upon the Temporal Mufde- a Fif 
Ifure was difcover’d, which indicated the iNeceffity of the 
'Trepan. It was apply’d twice, the firft not makinn- 
iroom fuihcient to extrad a large piece of the interml 
'Table very much deprelfed. After this all the Accidents 
tdifappear’d ; but twelve Days after the Operation Ri- 
tgors, cold Sweats, an intermitting Pulfe, and feme other 
tSigns of an approaching Death, did make us defpair of 
ithe Recovery of our Patient. He died the 15th from 
tthe' Operation, and about the 20th from his Wound. 
IHis Skull was open’d, and in it three very remarkable 
TifTures obferved. ‘ The firrt had, notwichihiidiiKT the 
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