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I have the Honour to be with all poffible Efteem 
and Refpe&j 
SIR, 
Paris, June 4. N. S. 
1740. 
Tour moft bumble and 
moft obedient Servant , 
De Bremond, 
of the Royal Academy 
of Sciences. 
XI I An Account of Tumours, which ren- 
dered the Bones foft . Communicated to the 
Royal Society by Mr * Pott, Surgeon. 
I N November 1 737 . a Gentleman, aged 27, com- 
plained to me of a Swelling in the Infide of his 
Right Thigh (being in every other refped in perfect 
Health). Upon Examination it appeared to be an 
encyfted Tumour of the Steatomatous kind, lying 
loofe between the Sartorius and Vaflus internus 
Mufcles. I told him, I could propofe no way of 
curing it, but by taking it out; which was accord- 
ingly done, and he very well in Six Weeks. 
After this he continued well for near a Year (ex- 
cept that he now-and-then complained of a flight 
Pain in the joint of that Hip, which went off and 
returned at different times) ; and then fell into Each 
a Difpofition to llecp, that no Company or Diver- 
Eon, nor his own Endeavours to the contrary, could 
keep 
