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which I gradually conftringed it once or twice a Day, 
as the Patient could fuft'er it, without caufing any ill 
Symptoms, till the 17th of the fame Month, when 
(he was taken with flrong Convulfions, a flow Fever, 
Syncope, her Teeth fet in her Head, and a Lofs of her 
Senfes, which lafted that whole Day, and the Night 
following; from which time I did no more con- 
ftringe the Tumour, prefcribed Cordials, volatile 
Drops, a purging Knema, and a paregoric Draught at 
Night, which had fo good anEffeft, that, by the next 
Day ihe was much recovered, and came to her Senfes. 
The Ligature began to make a Separation in the Neck 
of this preternatural fprouting Excrefcence ; and on 
the 20th, in the PrefeUce only of one in the Pro- 
fefllon, having all my Apparatus before me, I extir- 
pated the whole outward Tumour without any great 
Hemorrhage. ■. I was induced to ufe the Ligature, in 
order to prevent the too great Effufion of Blood; 
which might otherwife happen j thinking it not very 
fafe to make a Ligature of the Body of fo large an 
Artery as is in the Ham, for fear of intercepting after- 
wards the Nourilhment to the Leg, as happens often 
after theGperationof Aneurifma. 
The Remains, though fordid at firfl, by a peculiar 
Method of Drefling, and proper Applications of flrong 
Digeflives, Deterfives, 'cleanfed, and the Ulcer 
foon digefled, the Subflance came even to the Skin, 
and, September the 21 ft, it was all perfectly cured, 
without any Hardnefs, or any Inconvenience to her 
walking, and is like to remain always fo. 
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