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hard as ufual. The dura mater was incorporated 
with the bones. The brain not fofter than ordinary: 
Its right hemifphere was by one third larger than the 
left ; an4 hence, perhaps, the weaknefs of her left 
fide, often manifefled by pains, aches, defluxions* 
heavinefs, falls on that fide, and every illnefs, which 
fhe had from her infancy, beginning in fome part 
thereof. When young, fhe fell upon her head down 
two pair of flairs. The membranes, that feparate 
the two hemifpheres of the brain, were much thicker 
than commonly. 
In fine, all her bones were fo foft, that the fcalpel 
with very little force ran thro’ the hardefl of them ; 
even the rocky apophyfe of the ear bone, fo called 
from its exceflive hardnefs. Nothing extraordinary 
was found in the vifcera ; but their fize diminifhed 
by the compreffion, and an univerfal cachexy. 
There could be no caufe affigned of this woman’s 
diforder, as fire gave no figns plain enough to prove 
either a feurvy, pox, or king’s-evil, either heredi- 
tary, or acquired ; her parents having lived healthy, 
the one to the age of eighty, and her mother being 
flill alive, aged fixty, and in good health. She had 
three children, who died of diforders common to 
their age. One, 4 years old, died of the mealies. 
The cafe was looked upon as very extraordinary, 
and the patient was feen as a curiofity. It is cer- 
tainly rare, but there have been fome fimilar cafes, 
which are cited in the Abridgment of the Philofopbi- 
cal PranJ actions, in the remark upon the like cafe 
prefented to the Royal Society, by Mr. Silvanus 
Bevan, 
