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as it was wholly free from Pain, fo the only Reafon 
he had to regard it, was from its conftant Increafe, 
which during the two firft Years was very flow 5 but 
afterwards it increas’d fo faft (though without Pain) 
as to render him altogether incapable of Labour from 
the time of Hay-Harveft 1735. 
Upon taking off the Limb in May laft, I found 
it weighed, with the Leg and Foot, Sixty-nine Pounds, 
which (to the beft of my* Remembrance) is Twenty- 
feven more than the Leg fome Years fince taken off 
at St. Bartholomew ^ Hofpital by Mr. for the 
like Diforder. The Operation itfelf afforded nothing 
uncommon, except the Quantity of recurrent Blood, 
which, however greater than ufual, feemed propor- 
tional to the increafed Bulk of the Part. 
Upon examining this furprifing Tumour, the adja- 
cent Mufcles were found deftitute of their fibrous 
and flefhy Appearance (probably from the Preffure, 
and great Extenfion, which they had fuffer’d, and the 
little Motion which for fome Years they had imploy’d 
upon the Tarfus and Toes) > but the Fafcia and com- 
mon Membranes of the Mufcles, being greatly thick- 
ened and callous, adhered to the fubjacent Tumour; 
and upon removing this callous Integument, the 
Tumour appear’d cover’d with great Quantities of 
Blood-veffels, much diftended, and of a Colour more 
intenfely red than natural. 
The Tumour itfelf was Cartilaginous for the Space 
of half an Inch from its external Surface ; from 
whence it form’d numberlefs bony Subftances of 
various Forms, Colours, and Confiftences, which 
(growing more and more numerous, as they lay 
deeper) at laft form’d a continual Subftance com- 
H pletely 
