Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1878 — An Extraordinary Tumor. [ARTICLE]

An Extraordinary Tumor.

An inquest has been held at Consett, says an English paper, on a woman named Wake, whose death was caused by a tumor of extraordinary dimensions. It had been growing for four years, but the woman refused to have it removed. She was attended by a “herlmlist,” who by foolishly giving her medicine endeavored to burst it. Dr, Benton was called, and said that the tumor was three and a half feet high, and contained forty imperial quarts of semi-sclid fluid. The Coroner said the herbalist had acted with gross ignorance, but he was not criminally responsible for the woman’s death. Every applicant for a liquor license in Alabama is now obliged to take an oath that he will neither give nor sell any kind of liquor to a minor, or person of unsound mind, without permission from parent or guardian.