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XVI. Account of an extraordinary Steatoma^ 
tous Tumour^ in the Abdomen of a Wo-- 
man^ by P. Hanly, M, D. Communka-^ 
ted by Charles Morton, Af. D. Sec, R, S. 
Received November 8, 1770. 
Read Feb. 21, 
1771. 
M r S. Reily, aged thirty fix years, 
pale, tall, flefhy, and formerly of 
a healthy con flit ution, was brought to bed of a flrong, 
lively daughter, on the twenty third day of May, 
1770, in the parifh of St. Anne, Dublin. 
In the fifth month of her pregnancy, (he felt an 
uncommon lump in her ftomach (as fhe expreffed 
it), about the fize of a hen-egg, which did not then 
give her much pain or uneafinefs, and (he was in 
hopes that her delivery would carry it off : fhe had 
towards the end of her pregnancy frequent teach- 
ings, fometimes puked, and became emaciated } 
three days after fhe was brought to bed, fhe found 
the lump and teachings had encreafed ; fhe became 
very uneafy, and fent for me. 
Upon examining her abdomen, I felt a confider- 
able tumour contiguous to her ftomach, which after- 
wards had greatly encreafed, and was extended ob- 
liquely to her right fide, as low as her navel ; it lay 
immediately under the peritoneum and abdominal 
mufcles, and in the progrefs of its encreafe, I could 
S 2 plainly 
