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fpeedily done, I refolved to undertake it ; having had 
a Cafe of the like Nature, but in a lelfer Degree, 
under my Care about twelve Years ago in London , 
the Extirpation of which I performed without any 
bad Confequence ; and, upon confuting my old 
Mailer St. Tves his Book, I found almolt a parallel 
.Cafe to this Girl’s, which, he fays, he extirpated with 
Succefs } and, as he was an honed Man, I knew I 
could trull to him. 
On the 19th of June laft, in Prefence of Dr. 
Lowis , Dz.Dundafs, Dr. Mac- Far lane. Dr. Torng , 
Mr. Cunningham , Surgeon, I performed the Operation 
in the following Manner : 
I turned the Patient backwards on a Chair upon 
an Affillant’s Lap, her Head fupported by Pillows 5 
then, keeping the Skin tenfe with my Fingers, I 
made an Incifion about an Inch long with a fmall 
Razor, beginning at the greater Angle, and follow- 
ing the Direction of the Fibres of the orbicular 
Mufcle towards the lelfer Angle. I then palled a 
crooked Needle armed with Silk thro’ the Middle 
of the Tumour as deep as I could go; and, railing 
the Tumour with the Silk, with a line Biltoury I 
feparated all the lateral Adhelions from round the 
Tumour ; and, with the Point of my Scifiars, I cut 
the deeper Adhelions, which I could not fo well 
reach with the Billoury, and brought away all that 
the Thread had hold of. This feemed to be a tough 
membranous Subllance, independent of the real Tu- 
mour; for, after this was quite taken out, there 
appeared a regular Tumour, of a fpherical Figure, 
Imooth and even, about the Bignefs of a fmall Pige- 
on’s Egg : I palfed the Needle thro’ the Middle of it, 
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