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any other 5 the tongue was very frefh, and doubtlefs had per- 
formed the deglutition to nnake the child fwallow the Colliqua- 
mentum^ of which there was a good quantity in the ftomach ^ 
the J.aryn:^^ and all the parts of the throat were, as the reft of 
the body, in a good condition. 
ui Dropfy in one of the Ovaries of a Woman 5 hy 2)r. Hans 
Sloane. Phil. Tranf. N° 252. p. 150. 
MR S. Sro'X'/?, aged about 29, of -a fangr.ine complexion, 
had been married about four years, in which time fhe had 
had one child 5 after that, her belly Iwelling, fhe thought fhe was 
with child again 5 flie had often violent hyftericfits, ibmething like 
thofe of an cpilepfy, during uhich, ihe lay fometimes without 
fenfe or motion, at other times with fcreaming, and idle talk j 
thefe by proper remedies, were removed at feveral times with 
difficulty 5 when /he was fix months, as fhe thought, gone with 
child, /he began to have fomc doubt whether it were lb or not, 
becaule /he had her Menfei very regularly ; Dr. Sloane was of 
opinion ilie was not with child, and would have treated her with 
fteel and chalybeates of water, as bodies hydropically difpoled re- 
quire ; but her fancying /he felt the child ftir, put a ftop to that 
courfe^ /he delayed the propoied method for th/ee or four months 
beyond the ninth, thinking fhe had reckoned wrong ; but at laft 
fhe was perfuaded to take medicines, and ihe underwent a flridl 
courfe as is ufual in hydropical cales ; her legs did not Iwell nor 
jjit, her belly was unequal and the ivvc-lling more on the right fide, 
lb that the navel was thruft over to the left (ide ^ /he had alio dif- 
cutient pUifters applied to her belly, but all in vain excepting 
that with much anxiety, gripes and trouble, /b much water was 
evacuated, as to bring down her belly three or four inches j at lall 
flie fubmitted to a tapping, which was performed at feveral 
times, and diicharged great quantities, firft of a limpid thick 
Serwn^ like whites of eggs, in/ipid and coagulable by heat into 
the like fubilance^ and what came afterwards was of the colour 
and con/iftence of thin honey, and coiaulated upon evaporation 5 
in Ibme time after ilie fell into a fever, v.dth a great thru/h, 
hickups, and in about nine days time /lie died. 
Out of her body, when diffedcd, there was difcharged fome 
buckets of the fame watry lub/lance with what came by tapping; 
part of it was floating in the abdomen, but far the greater part 
was voided out of large and thick bags, fome of which were as 
large as the ftomach,' others were fmaller, many of them were 
rotted to pieces, and all of them in the right ovary or teflicle ; 
the 
