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At fifteen Months end, the Belly was fo diftended, that it 
fectned ready to Burft $ which made the Patient defire the 
Phyficiansto advife Mr. Nichols to make the Paracentefis $ 
but all were furprized, when inftead of Water there rufh- 
ed out a pint and half of fvveet wdl-digefted Matter : 
The next Day he let out as much more, and then percei- 
ved Hair four or five Inches long iffue forth with the 
Matter, but fo faftned in the Infide, that he could not 
pull them out, the Woman complaining he would draw 
out a piece of her Belly. 
She lived but four Days after the Operation 5 and on 
Difieftion of her Belly there was found ten Quarts of the 
fame Matter which flowed through the Tap hole, and in 
it floating a Lump of Hair fo big as an Halfpenny Loaf, 
wrapt up in a fatty Matter, from which being cleanfed, 
it weighed full half an Ounce, On the Right fide of the 
Womb he found a Protuberance bigger than a large 
Walnut, from which the Hair grew eight Inches long $ 
that Tumor, or rather the Ovary being feparated from the 
Matrix , there was found in it a perfed Dog-Tooth Pock- 
eted in a Bone of a triangular Figure, in which another 
Tooth was growing $ the Bone had a P erioftium on it 
furrounded with Flefh, faftned at the Calvaria to the 
Scull. 
If you defire to fee thofe things, or to have a more 
particular account of this Diffedion, Mr. Nichols will 
oblige you with the fame freedom and readinefs he hath 
done your Servant. 
My Patient’s Cafe hath two Difficulties in it which I 
can’t get over, viz. How thefe Subftances got in where 
they lodged ? And how they got out thence by the way 
they did ? Without doubt they were nefted in or near the 
Tefticle 5 the place of Tumor and Pain, and the many 
Anatomical Difcoveries made by thofe great Philofophers 
I have quoted, do ev’n demonftrate it : They could not 
be conveyed into that Bowel, and muft therefore be made 
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