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cujus tamen rei cauflas, neque ipfus ego indagavi, 
neque memini, amicos unquam indagavifle. Jam, ita 
farmentis cavernam obruerunt accolae, ut vix adiri 
polllc amplius. Quin 6c avicularum funera rariora 
funt hodie, quam fuerunt olira : quod equidem pro- 
fundius, quam antea, manantibus aquis adtribuerim. 
Hxc de his, hadenus. 
IV. An Account of a ^ery extraordinary Tu- 
mour in the Knee of a ^erfon^ whofe Leg 
was taken off hy Mr. Jer* Peirce, Surgeon at 
Bath 5 communicated in a Letter to Dr. 
Mead, L^hyjician to His Majesty, and 
Fellow of the College of Phyficians, and of 
the Royal Society, London. 
.SIR, Bath, June ii. 1737* 
S no one has been more converfant with the 
furprifing Diforders to which Men are liable, 
or takes a greater Pleafure in their Relief, than your- 
felf, fo I flatter myfelf the following Cafe cannot fail 
of being acceptable to you. 
William Hedges of Stratton in Somerfetjhire, a 
Parmer’s Son, of 25 Years of Age, of a mufcular 
healthy Habit, having never known any kind of 
Difeafe j about eight Years fincefirft obferved a frnaU 
Swelling on his Right Leg near the fuperior Epiphyfls 
of the Tibia, which (to ufe his own Terms) he called 
a Splint, about the Bignefs of a fplit Horfe- bean. As 
he was not confeious of any Bruife on tlie Part, and 
as 
