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the Vetfels that brought the Blood to the Membrane s of the Brain, Were'greatly swelled, and tuli of Polypus’ s; of them wedrew out 12, somc 4 In-cbes long, and forne three.

12. In the Beginning of this Year. 1697. the Wife of M. Mafoc, Mer-chanr, being 40 Years old, who had 4 or 5 Children, had the fame Sym-ptoms which happen to Women near their Labour, M. Soye was called toher, and sceing that lhe fufiered such a Löß as happens to Women beforetheir bringing forth, orupon some Hurt, made ready for Laying of her. Wefaw pref'ntly a Falje Conception, which appeared at the Inner Orifice of theMatrix-, This he pulkd out, perceiving it loofe from its Ligaments. ThisFalse Conception was of the bignefi of a Goofe Egg, and (hap’t like a KidneyzThere was also f< great a Similitude between the Structure of the Ktdney , andthis Mass of Fleth, that the Fibres were wholly alike. This Woman seid,that this False Conception had been two Tears in her Matrix. After it wasout, Ihe had the fame Loss ot Blood, as in her other Lyings in, and keep-ing to the fame Course as fhe uled in such Occasions, the had no bad Con*fequences of it,

13. There was obsirved in a Child, newly Born, and in due time, that ithad nothing of the Bone in the Hind*Part 01 the Head, the Temporal Bones,nor of the Frontal Bone as far as the Eyes ; so that the Eyes made an appear-ance of two Horns, which the Calves have whtn they come into the World,which standing much out, made the Child’s Face very Monftrous. In theTemporal Borns there was nothing feen but what enclosed the Organ of1 Hearing ; upon laying the Hand upon it, was feit the beat'mg of the Areries,and the VeiTels which watered the Pia and Dura Mater were feen dtftinctly,as if the Bone had been iahen off. This Child Limei in this State, 4 or 5days.

14. M. Soye the Younger, a Surgeon, having opened a Young Giri,found her Matrix so Schirrous , that it feemed to be made but of OnePiece.

i y. The farne obfervcd since, such a thing in a Giri 2 Years Old, thatdied of an Apoplexy ; he found also 4 Glanis in the Mefentery of this Maid.each as big as a Wallnut. He has since seen that the Mefentery of a Child7 or 8 Years Old, was made of 2 Glandi, each of the fame bignefi.

1 6. M. Barriere, Sworn Surgeon, found in a Giri 11 or 12 Years Old,instead of a Matrix, a very thin Membrane placed where the Matrix is. TheVagina in the outward Orifice was thut up Hermetically; i. e. the Coverwas of the fame Piece with the Matrix.

17. M. Carlan, fworn Surgeon; having observed in a Man a Swelling ,as big as a Pullet’s Egg, upon the place called Fontanella , and covered withHatr like the rest of the Head, applyed to it Emplafrum de Betonica , byorder of M. Dusaur, Professor of Surgery, and ihe Swelling difappear’d.

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