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adhered to the Teritonatm, but was eafily fcparable therefrom 5 
the kidneys were free of any obftru6tions3 the bJadder was empty; 
the ftomach had nothing but wind in it 3 the diaphragm was for- 
cibly impelled upwards into the chefl, and its convex part bore 
hard aoainll the lobes of the lungs, whofc fubfkance was much 
decayed, and looked like par-boilcd flefh^ upon cutting open the 
heart, it did not yield the leaft drop of water, or blood, no more 
than the other bowels. 
A Woman Hvdropical in the extenial Coat of the Uterus 5 hy 
Mr. Turner. Phil. Tranf. K" 207. p- 20. 
A Woman, aged 44 and upwards, Ibme time after ilie was 
married, had conceived, as flie thought by fome fuppofcd 
lymptoms of pregnancy, and at the expiration of the time of her 
account, her fancied pains came on, and fhe thought herfelf very 
near her labour 3 her belly was grown very big, and had gradu- 
ally encreafed from the time of her im.agined conception ; at laft, 
after more than three yt^ars from the time of her iuppofed preg- 
nancy, file removed into the air, where fhe had not continued 
long before fne languiflied and died: Upon making a crucial 
incifion from the navel to the Ilia and Os Tuhis 3 one of the 
difleders, cutting thro' the ^eritondum^ accidently thrufl his 
knife too far, and immediately there iffued out, with impetuofity, 
a flream of a- limpid ^^-n/;?; or Lympha, as clear as water, to the 
quantity of more than two gallons, inclofed in a thin tranfparent 
membrane, which was found to be the external coat of the 
Uterus: One of the great indications of this woman's pregnancy, 
was a flux of a whitilh humour to her breads, which flie could 
fqueeze out at pleafure 3 flie had likewife laboured the greatell: 
part of the time under a fuppreflion of the MenfeS' 
A Child hit by a Mad-Dog; by Mr. J. Turner. Phil. TranC 
N° 207. p. 24. 
A Child, of about three years old, was bit on the Majfeter 
mulcle by a mad dog 3 the wound was treated with digef- 
tives for fome time, futures were forborn, tho' orherwile neceiljir)', 
that the venom might be the more freely difcharged 3 in a little 
time there was a diicharge of a very laudable ^us^ and the wound 
incarnated very faft, without any inflammation 3 in about three 
weeks after this, the child was leized with a fever, a dilorderly 
pulfe, and palpitation of the heart 3 the enfuing night he grew 
delirious, and the lucceeding day the malignity had made fb , 
virulent an impreffion on the ariimal fpirits, as excited very 
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