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repeated, only exchanging ‘P/ 7 . Matth. gr. viij. for 
. 01 . Anif. g ft \. and continued to December 12th, 
when his Pains returned violently, and he coughed 
up clotted Matter, not unlike the Parenchyma of the 
Lungs abraded, with a little Blood. His Breath be- 
came fetid, his Refpiration troubled, and he com- 
plained of Third. He ufed oily paregoric Draughts 
to the 15th, about which Time he was feized with 
fo violent a pleuritic Pain, in the Middle of the 
Night, that it was thought he muft have expired, 
had not about of Blood been taken away imme- 
diately, upon which the Pain foon removed from 
the Side, and attacked him there but for a few Mi- 
nutes afterwards. The Blood continued as jfizy as 
ever. In the Evenings, when his Pains were mod 
vehement, he had been fometimes delirious. 
'December 18th, he firft told me of a Tumor he 
had difeovered near the Navel, fince I faw him on 
the 15th. It appeared not as he fat, but when laid 
on his Back, there was a Protuberance bigger than a 
Turkeys Egg, Four Fingers Breadth on the Left Side 
of the Navel, extending Two above it, and Four 
below it. By its Situation, Refinance to Preflure, 
and the Unevennefs that from under the Skin was 
communicated to the Touch, its difappearing when 
he was in an eredt Pollute, and its not being dimi- 
nifhed by difeutient Fomentations, it was judged to 
be a feirrhous Tumor, which had long exifted there 
unobferved by the Patient, till it increafed too much 
to be longer undifeovered. The Emplajl. de Ran. 
& cum Mercur. was applied outwardly 5 and conclu- 
ding there was an internal Cancer, I was encouraged, 
from the preceding Cafe, to order him Hydrargyr. 
