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Sylvius, Ex lymph aticis l&fis tarn Vir ilium, quam 
Muliebrium Tejliculorwn , &c. Hydrops particulars 
excitari potejl . 
Veflingius cap j . 7. has often met with large Tu- 
mours, from Obftru&ions in the Ovaria of Women. 
Kef alius found in the right Ovarium, 9 or 10 Gian- 
dales, like Goofe Eggs, with Matter not unlike the 
Whites of Eggs, or rather thicker. 
Gul. Ballon , paradig. vi. found an Impoflhume of the 
Nature of a Steatoma, near the Colliirn Uteri } The Wo- 
man had a large Tumour on her Side 16 Years, and had 
only one Ovarium, which was fhown as a wonderful 
thing. 
At IVejhnvifter, about two Years ago, I opened the 
Body of a Gentlewoman, about 60, whofc left Ova- 
rium, of a great Bulk, weigh’d vi. ft. to which ad- 
her’d feveral Hydatides like Pullets Eggs. 
Hildan mentions an Hydropick Tumour of the right 
Ovarium, of a prodigious bulk, fluff’d with Hair, vide 
Gul. Fab. Hild. Cent. 5 Obf. 48. Greg. Horfi. Tom . 2. 
L 4. Ob. 53. 
Ruyfch Obf. Anat . 17. A Dropfie (fays he J of the 
Ovarium, or (if you pleafe) of the Eggs, is an Affedlion, 
or Difeafe, well enough known to others, but I am 
afraid not fo well confider’d j x\uthors have agreed to 
call it Jiydatis, with which name I fhall reft fatisfied, 
provided we agree about the fubjeft of the Di- 
flemper. I obferve this, moll frequently, if not al- 
ways, to be the Eggs, but fo chang’d, and fometimes 
fwell’d to fuch a Bulk, that I have often feen them 
larger than a Child’s Head. 
Brelincourt has given us a very full and exa 0: Ac- 
count of a Dropfie of the left Ovarium, in a Lady of 
35 Y ears. The Tumour, of an enormous Bulk, con- 
tinu’d three Y ears. The Body of the Ovarium, with 
all contain’d in it, weigh’d, 60 ft. It was nothing 
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