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 had not all their disputes about it run into the affair of Wens and œdematous swellings, they could not keep clear of them for their bloods and souls—the stranger's nose had nothing to do either with wens or œdematous swellings.

It was demonstrated however very satisfactorily, that such a ponderous mass of heterogenious matter could not be congested and conglomerated to the nose, whilst the infant was in Utero, without destroying the statical balance of the fœtus, and throwing it plump upon its head nine months before the time.—

—The opponents granted the theory—they denied the cousequencesconsequences [sic].

And if a suitable provision of veins, arteries, &c. said they, was not laid in,