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 avocation, obtain the favour of your perusal. The thing is evident, and shews itself, and can withall be attested by thousands, but above all the rest by his Excellency, the said Lord Ambassadour, who was an Eye-witness of it, and imposed this task on me, of giving your Lordship a perfect Narrative of the wonder, which is as follows;

Elizabeth Trevers, 23. or 24. years of age, fair of complexion, brown-hair'd, of an healthy constitution, low of stature, of honest repute, but of mean and poor parentage, near this Town, was on Friday July 3d, 1669. in good health, and went well to bed, where she took as good rest and sleep, as ever before, but in the morning, when she awaken'd, and attempted to turn herself in her bed, was not able, finding her Breasts so swell'd, than she was affrighred to an astonishment. Then endeavoring to sit up, the weight of her Breasts fastned her to her bed; where she hath layn ever since, yet whithout all pain and weakness either in her Breasts, or in any other part.

This being nois'd abroad, several Physicians and Chyrurgions resorted to her: some proposed cutting off her Breasts, which I was wholly against, advising for the present only an emollient and temperately warme fotus, and once gave her a Bolus with ******; upon the taking of which she had ten motions deosum, and the swelling somewhat abated; but the Maid was so weaken'd upon it for 2. or 3. days after, that lI durst not attempt any thing of that nature since; sed quiapassa suit suppressionem mensium per sex retrò menses, Diuretica non nulla, & sanguinis menstrui prolectamenta præseripsi, intending also Phlebotomy. The Tubuli or pipes of the Breasts are all very hard and swelled; and indeed the whole breasts seem to be nothing else but those tubuli, and little or nothing of wind or water. As near as we can guess, the left breast weighs about 25. pounds, but the right somewhat less. And the skin of the Back, Neck and Belly seem to be drawn towards the Breasts to serve for the distention. The measures of the Breasts are these;