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having any apprehenfion of contagion, in the ftate I fuppofed 
the fluids to. be in, the effervefcing draughts were prefcribed 
him and fome wine. When I vifited him on the 8th, his 
pulfe was extremely quick and feeble, his fkin hot, and tongue 
white, and I was informed that he had raved at times dur- 
ing the night. Blifters were then applied to the legs, an in- 
jeCtion ordered, and the wine increafed. The vomiting ftill 
returned at intervals. On the gth all the fymptoms became 
much more violent, and flight hiccough. difturbed him now 
and then. The wine was again increafed, being the only 
thing his ftomach would bear. On the roth I found him in 
a ftate nearly approaching to coma, with conftant fingultus. 
Attempts were made to roufe; him by further ftimulating 
applications, but im vain; and he died that evening, the 
fixth from his admifflion, and the fourth from the attack of 
vomiting. 
I EXAMINED the body the morning after his deceafe. From 
the circumfcribed appearance of the tumified abdomen, | 
fuppofed the water might be contained in a cyft (a circum- 
ftance, I ‘believe, feldom met with in men) as it much re- 
fembled a difeafe very familiar to me in the Hofpital, 1 mean 
ovarium dropfy. On ftriking the tumour on one fide, while I 
kept my hand fixed on the other, I had’no doubt of feeling 
a fluétuation ; but when I prefled hard on the linea alba, or 
center of the abdomen, I was greatly furprifed to find a 
ridge reaching from the fternum to, the pelvis. I then opened 
the cavity and beheld the ftomach and inteftines all thrown 
completely to the right fide, much diftended with air, while 
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