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The Cafe of this young W oman is indeed extraor- 
dinary * i but there are feveral Examples of like Na- 
ture to be met with in medical Writers, and thofe of 
the greated Authority 5 one of which, as it has the 
Attedation of a whole Univerfity, cannot be im- 
proper to mention here. Monfieur Hrelincourt, a 
very noted Phyfician, tells us, in his Treatife on the 
Small-pox, .of a Child Eight Years of Age, who had 
loft his Tongue by that Diftcmper, and was yet able 
to fpeak, to the Aftonifhment of the Univerfity of 
Sanmur in France 3 and that the Univerfity (who 
doubtlefs had firft carefully examined into the Truth) 
had atteded it, by drawing up a particular Account 
of the Fad, that Podcrity might have no room ,to 
doubt concerning the Validity of it. The Account 
is to be met with at large,, in the Third Volume of 
the Ephemerides Germanics , under the Title of 
Aglotfc iftomographia. 
Tulpius too makes mention of a Man who had the 
Misfortune to have his Tongue cut out by the Turks , 
and yet, after Three Years, could fpeak very diftindly. 
He fays, he went himfelf to JVefop , a Town in Hol- 
land, to be fatisfied of the Truth of it, and found it 
to be as it was reported. Nay, he does not fo much 
as mention any Defied! in his Speech, but allures us, 
that he could pronounce thofe Letters which depend 
upon the Apex of the Tongue, even the Confonants, 
very articulately. And this Cafe is hill the more 
worthy Attention, becaufe the Patient could not 
fwallow even the lead Quantity of Food, unlefs he 
thrud it into the Oefophagus by means of his Finger. 
* N. B. All the original Papers are in the Repofitory of the Royal 
Society. 
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