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XXII. The Cafe of Grace Lowdell, aged 
about Sixty Tears, fwho had an extraordinary 
Tumour on her Thigh communicated hy 
J ohil Chand ler, F. R. S.from Mr. Mizacl Mal- 
falguerat. Surgeon^ at St. Edmund’s-bury. 
C "^ RACE Lowdelly a poor old Woman of the 
I Parifh of St^ James, in Bury St. Edmund's, Suf- 
folk, being naturally of a grofs, fat, and relaxed 
Conftitution, and conftantly given to the drinking 
of ftrong Liquors ; and cbnfequently labouring for 
many Years under an ill Habit of Body, fuch as the 
Rheumatifm, which had caufed Contraction of fomc 
of her Fingers, with fome nervous AlfeCtions in her 
Head, often caufing fome little Fits of Vertigo, ^c. 
And though fhe had formerly fome Child-bearing 
Weaknefs, a Trocidentia Uteri, yet there could 
not be found any other fcrophulous Symptoms, than 
that fhe obferved, when about Thirty Years of Age, 
foon after her Delivery of a Son, a little hard Swell- 
ing on the yixxizXt Biceps, and pofterior, inferior and 
external lateral Part of the Thigh, a little above the 
Ham, without her knowing any manifeft Occafion 
for it j which at firft went on flowly, but after pro- 
ceeding more quickly, and the older it grew, it Hill 
came on the fafter, until it increafed to the Bulk of 
near a Foot in Circumference, being fomewhat of a 
globulous and a little longifh Figure from its Bafis, 
which was lax, like a Peduncle, or Stalk, and about 
half the Circumference of the Tumour, like a Neck 
to the Head of a Child hanging down. 
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