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CASE of an ENLARGED SPLEEN. By GEORGE 
BURROWES, M.D. MRI A 
On the 4th of April 1792,a man aged’ about forty-four,’ 
who had that morning walked feveral miles from the coun- 
try, applied for admittance at the Hofpital of the Houfe of 
Induftry. He faid he had laboured under dropfy for fome 
months, during which time the abdomen had increafed to the 
fize it then was, which was equal to that of a woman in the 
ninth month of pregnancy. His eyes were fuffufed with yellow, 
but his legs were not then, nor had they ever been, fwelled. 
The abdomen was examined by fome of the young gentle- 
men, my pupils, who thought they could perceive an evident 
fluctuation. He was put into the chronic ward, and fome 
opening medicine ordered to be taken the following day 
(the sth): this operated well; but on the next day (the 6th) 
he was feized with fevere vomiting and head-ach, which pre- 
vented any examination of the fwelling, being fuppofed to 
arife from fatigue, change of air, diet, &c* The vomiting con- 
tinuing on the 7th, he was removed to the fever ward, where 
he could be better attended and more regularly vifited. ‘Not 
having ; 
Read June 
2, 1792. 
