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fition, the ftone did no more prefs on his bladder. 
He never miffed doing foldier’s duty till his laft 
ficknefs, about feven days before his death. 
We have examples of membranes, and of feveral 
foft parts of the body, being offified ; but I believe 
there is not fuch a monftrous production as this to 
be fee nany- where. 
About 20 years ago I faw at Mantua, two inches 
of the aorta near the heart turned to bone, in a man 
that was a long time tormented with a violent palpi- 
tation of heart. 
I know. Sir, relations of fuch extraordinary appear- 
ances are often, and with reafon, fufpefted of exag- 
geration, but you may depend upon the veracity of 
this. I am, 
Reverend Sir, 
m 
Your moff humble, and 
moff obedient Servant. 
BrufTels, March 29, 
1760. 
Terence Brady, M. 2). 
LXIII. An Account of an extraordinary Cafe 
of a Lady , who f wallowed Euphorbium . 
By Dr. Willis, of Lincoln : Communicated 
by Sir Francis Dafhwood, Bart . 
Read Apr. 2 4>1T N December 1758, Mrs. Willis of 
jL Lincoln fell into a flow fever, occa- 
lioned by too fmall a dilcharge of the lochia after 
lying-in. 
