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XLI1. An Account of fo7ne extraordinary 
Man , now in St. Bartholomew’s Hofpital, 
By James Parfons, M. D. F. R. S. 
Read Nov. 10, IS poor man, whofe name is 
l 7S7- John Tomlinfon, gives this ac- 
count of himfelf: That he was born at or near 
Rotherham in Yorkshire, and is now about 2y years 
of age : that when he was a boy of four or five 
years old, at play with other children, he received a 
blow from one of them upon the top of his head j 
and believes that hurt, he then received, was the 
beginning of the appearances, that are reprefen ted 
before you. See Tab. XIV. The tumor upon the 
top of his head, however, grew firff, and, after 
having fpread all over the vertex, extended gradually 
downwards over his right fhoulder, and forwards 
over the cs frontis , on the fame fide, till it ffretched 
downwards into a lax flabby fubftance all over the 
right fide of his face and fhoulder : then the upper 
of the three anterior tumors arole from the large one ; 
the middle one from the ala nafi , pulling it down 
by its weight, as you fee it in Figure i . ; and the 
lower one was pendulous from the infide of the great 
tumor by a narrow neck. Thefe are the appearances 
which prefent themfelves at firft fight ; but thofe 
under the great tumor are no lefs extraordinary ; for, 
upon lifting up the great tumor, and looking up 
* The two figures fhew a fore and back view of this fubjeft. 
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