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greater ftore of Blood Veffels, and in others it was very 
White. 
I was not. a little furprized to hear the edge of my 
Knife grate againft fomething hard, while"! was cutting 
it, which made me proceed with caution, not to fpoil 
whatever it was that made the refifian.ce I therefore 
p i red off all the foft part, and the hard fubftance that 
remained 1 boy led, and then cleared it very well, hav- 
ing left Clicking to it at one corner a foft Cartilaginous 
Body, which poliibly, had the Patient lived longer, 
would have acquired the fame degree of Induration, 
it very much refembles a piece of white unpoiifiied 
Rock Coral j, but whether it may be reckoned ofieous, 
or if it be rather the Vifcid Humour of the Glands hard- 
ned and concreted into this irregular Chalky or Gra - 
velly Subftance, or whatever elfe it may be, ] leave, Sir, 
to your better Judgment to determine. See Fig- if 
I remember about two years ago I found in the 
Projiates of a very old man a great many hard Bodies, 
like White Peas, being of a Subftance exa&iy like this, 
onlyfmoother on the outfide , feme ofthefe were in the 
Body' of thefe Glands, others adhered by final! Roots 
to the Mufcular Membrane that Inverts them, Fig, a. 
• The firft appearance of this large Swelling was about 
twenty years ago, caufed by the breaking of a Vein, as 
the good Woman ufed to exprefs it, in a hard add very 
difficult Labour. It increafed but very flowly, riot ar- 
riving to any confiderable bulk till a few years before 
(he dyed j it was never very painful, being a true 
Schirrhus : Many things by feveral Perfons had been 
ufed and apply ed unfuccefsfully. Its bignefs at length 
became very troubfefome, in impeding her Swallow- 
ing and free Breathing, and at iaft it quite choaked 
her, by comprefiing the Wind-pipe, upon which It. 
lay. 
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