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confefs, I was of a contrary Opinion ; but being told 
what fo many others had faid, I declin’d meddling 
with it at that Time, though her Parents and herfelf 
were willing to it: At this Time I difmifled her, fayin? 
that, if Ihe liv’d, a little Time wou’d difcover more of 
her Cafe. About two Months after I was delired to 
vifit her again, which I did, but the Tumours were 
lo monftroufly increafed, and her Body fo wafted, 
that I wonder’d ftie could live under fuch Circum- 
ftancesj the Tumour of the Thigh was every Way 
yielding to the Prelfurc of the Finger, nor was there 
the leaft Hardnefs about the Extremities of it, fo that 
it might be ealily miftaken for an Aneurifma, had it 
not wanted the grand Charafteriftick.Pulfation, which 
fomefay, is not to be felt when thofe are very lar<?e 
the Middle of this then look’d a little red, 'and film- 
ing, and feem’d to point a little ; I told them I be- 
lieved it would break with a fmall Orifice, and fhew 
what was contain’d, willing them to notify it to me 
if fuch a Thing happen’d: Three Days after they call’d 
me in hafte to this Patient, faying, the Swelling of 
her Thigh was broke- when I came, I found there 
had been difcbarg’d a fmall Quantity of matterifh 
Subftance, much like what is contain’d in a Meliceris 
but the Opening was fo fmall or clofed, that I could* 
not enter my Probe ; however, though file feem’d 
to me ( and to Mr. Wall, an Apothecary then 
prefen t) to be ready to expire, yet, at the De- 
hre of her Parents, I open’d this Tumour with my 
Launcet, making an Incifion about an Inch and 
an half long, through which poured three Pint 
Bafons full of Matter, befides feveral fmaller, which 
together contain’d about five Quarts, it was very fe- 
tid and bloody towards the latter End of this Dif- 
charge ; upon this, the Tumour wholly fubfided, in- 
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