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XIIT. A Cafe wherein ‘Part of the Lungs 
were coughed up . Prefented to the Royal 
Society by William Watfon, F. R. S. 
r ~PHoma$ Halfey, aged about 70, of a Chore Make, 
and pretty fat, being in a tolerably good State of 
Health, (unlefs, as for fome Years paft, troubled with 
frequent coughing upon Motion) was feized Sept. 
23, 1740. with a violent Fit of Coughing, in which 
he fell down, as the By-flanders thought, dead, and 
difcharged near a Quart of Blood at his Mouth, in a 
very large Stream, mixed with many Portions of a 
feemingly grumous Matter. His coughing Fit con- 
tinued near Three Minutes. He revived upon bleed- 
ing at the Arm, and, being put to-bed, recovered 
his Senfes, and (as he faid) was perfectly eafy, and 
free from Pain, except upon Coughing, which as 
often as he did, he fpit Blood vifibly arterial from its 
florid Colour. About Four Hours after the Firft Fit, 
he was taken with a Second, attended with the fame 
Symptoms as the Firft j and expired in it. Upon 
examining the Blood, which he brought up at his 
Death, I found, in Pieces of different Sizes, near 
Three Ounces of the Subftance of the Lungs, not 
ulcerated, or any ways diftcmpered 5 and I have Rea- 
fon to believe there was near the fame Quantity of 
the Lungs thrown up during the Firft Fit of Coughing. 
The Pieces were eafily diftinguifhable from grumous 
Blood, by their conne&ing Membrane, the Acini in 
the internal Part, and their fpecific Gravity. 
Upon 
