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from the fcarlet eruption ; and the pafiage from the 
back of the fauces into the ear having lain open ex- 
poied to its malign influence, an abfcefs has been 
formed in the tympanum, which has been defrayed 5 
otherwife the bones could not come out at the other 
ear.” 
-He had learned to read before this unhappy acci- 
dent, and the people about him write down what 
they want to make him underhand , at leaf at pre- 
lent, tiil they have found out a readier method. 
LI. Obfervations concerning the Body of his 
lateMajefy , October 26, 1760, by Frank 
Nicholis, M. D. F. R. S. Phyjician to his 
late Majefly. 
< T° the Right Honourable George Earl ^Macclesfield, 
Prefident of the Royal Society . 
My Lord, 
Read Nov. 26, ryiiiE inclofed papers have been laid 
JL before the Lord Chamberlain, for 
his Majefy’s infpedion ; and his Majefy’s anfwer 
v/as, That he law no reafon, why they may not be 
made public. 
The burfing the ventricle of the heart is a cafe 
entirely unknown in phyfical writers; and mufi de- 
pend on many circumf ances, which rarely coincide. 
I have uled my bef endeavours, to give a clear 
^r.d^ fatisiadtory account of this very extraordinary 
affair ; and I hope I have fucceeded : but, if any 
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