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However, he continued ufing the beft Means he could 
for her Relief. One Day when he was Syringing of 
it, the Tongue dropped out, and they received it into 
a Plate, the Girl, to their Amazement, faying to her 
Mother, “ Done be frighted, Mamma j ’twill grow 
« again." It was near a Quarter of a Year after, before 
it was quite cured. 
We proceeded to examine her Mouth with the 
greateft Exadnefs we could, but found not the lead 
Appearance of any remaining Part of a Tongue, nor 
was there any Uvula. We obferved a flefhy Excre- 
fccnce on the under Left Jaw, extending itfelf almoft 
to the Place where the Uvula ffiould be, about a 
Finger broad : This Excrefcence, {he faid, did not 
begin to grow till fome Years after the Cure : It is by 
no means moveable, but, quite fixed to the Parts 
adjacent. The Paflage down the Throat, at the Place 
where the Uvula fhould be, or a little to the Right 
of it, is a circular open Hole, large enough to admit 
a fma-ll Nutmeg. 
Not wit hftanding the-want of fo neceflary an Organ 
as the Tongue was generally fuppofed to be, to form 
a great Part of our Speech, and likewife to be aflift- 
ing in Deglutition, to our great Admiration, fhc per- 
formed the Office of Deglutition, both in fwallowing 
Solids and Fluids, as well as we could, and in the 
fame manner : And as to Speech, ffie difeourfed as 
fluently and well as other Perfons do } though we 
obferved a fmall Sound, like what is ufually called 
fpeaking through the Nofe ; but, ffie faid, ffie had 
then a great Cold, and ffie believed that occafioncd 
it. She pronounced Letters and Syllables very arti- 
culately j the Vowels fhe pronounced perfedly, as alfo 
thofe 
