SOO On Animal Fluids. 



S. Muriate of soda. Boih parties agree in this being 

 the chief saline impregnation. 



ft may be right to notice that T have employed the term 

 self cnngiilal'le lymph instead of the usual one coagulable 

 lymph; because the serum, another fluid of the blood, is 

 also coagulable ; not indeed of itself, but at a certain tem- 

 perature, or on the admixture with certain substances. The 

 deposit spoken of by Dr. Marcct is not, I think, as he sup- 

 poses, what I mean by the tcrrn self coagulable Ivmph. 



Although, if the ciuse of truth require it, another com- 

 munication may be offered, it will be most agreeable to 

 me, that it be not f )i.ind necessary. Considering the erro- 

 neous inferences with which the writings of cheinis'ry 

 abound by men of the greatest celebrity, I shall on that 

 account find a source of consolation if time show that I am 

 the erring party. I hope too that tins controversial discus- 

 sion may serve to promulgate knowledge, by inducing some 

 persons to attend to the subject who might not otherwise 

 have known the oriy;inal papers. If with these reflections 

 my respectable adversary can be satisfied, the controversy 

 will now be terminated: 



"Claudite jam rivos, pueri: sat pratabiberunt." 



G. P. 



George street Hanover-square, April 17, 1812. 



XLTIf. Case of Hernia Umbilicalis, operated on with Suc- 

 cess during Ute>o-gestation. £y John Taunton, Esq. 

 S/irrrenn to the City and Finslury Dispensaries, and to 

 the C'ly . Truss Society, Lecturer on Anatomy, Surgery, 

 Physiology, c^c. 



June 29, 1811. IVlRS. E. P. aged 42, three months 

 gone with child, has had an umbilical hernia for 20 years, 

 as laroe as a full-s'Ztd teacup, but never found any incon- 

 venience from it til! yesterday, when, as she was walking in 

 the slrc-et, a bov ran against her, and struck her upon the 

 tumour, which occasioned nnich pam. A neighbouring 

 surgeon and apothecary, who attended the family, was re- 

 quested to see her. She had sickness, vomiting, hiccough, 

 and constipation >)f the bowels; the pain, attended with a 

 sen-ation of heat, was principally referred to the region of 

 the sto riach. Aperients, opiates, and enemas were given: 

 the 'ornier were rejected by ihe stomach, and the latter 

 pro 'uced no effect on the bowels : fomentations were ap- 

 plitd to the abdomen without relief. These jneans were 



pursued 



