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order to her delivery, at the expiration of the time of her account, her fancied 

 pains came on, and she thought herself very near her labour. Her belly was 

 grown very large, and had gradually increased from the time of her imagined 

 conception ; but her illness shortly after wore off, without leaving any prognostic 

 of an approaching birth. Continuing, however, to increase in size for many 

 months longer, after taking many medicines, &c. for about 3 years she re- 

 moved into the air, where she soon after langushed and died. 



On making a crucial incision to open the body, from the navel to the ilia 

 and OS pubis, one of the dissectors cutting through the peritonaeum, accidentally 

 thrust his knife too far, and immediately there issued out, with impetuosity, a 

 stream of a limpid serum or lymph, as clear as water, rising up a considerable 

 height, to the quantity of more than 2 gallons, enclosed in a thin transparent 

 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 

 whitish humour to her breasts, which she could squeeze out at pleasure, and 

 thought it to be the milk generated there as usual. She had likewise laboured 

 for the greatest part of the time under a suppression of the menses. 



On the Bite of a Mad-Dog. By Mr. Turner. N° 207, p. 24. 



There was brought to us for cure a child of about 3 yeurs of age, who had 

 just then received a large wound on the masseter muscle by the bite of a dog. 

 The wound was treated with digestives for some time, sutures were forborn, 

 though otherwise necessary, that the venom might be more freely discharged. 

 In a short time there was a discharge of a very laudable pus, and the wound 

 incarned as fast as we could desire, without any inflammation or bad appearance. 

 Three weeks after this, the child was seized with a fever, a disorderly pulse, 

 and palpitation of the heart: the ensuing night he grew delirious, and the suc- 

 ceeding day the malignity had made so virulent an impression on the animal 

 spirits, as excited strong irritations in the members of the body ; nor was the 

 brain, and its parts, freed from the same morbid taint, which showed itself in 

 an unusual distortion of the eyes, and an extraordinary fierceness in the whole 

 visage, continual watchings, and a constant trembling with a reiterated snatch- 

 ing up of the lower jaw, making signs as if he would have bit at any thmg that 

 was offered him. His voice was uttered with a canine hoarseness, and n)uch 

 resembled the barking of a dog. He was also invested with a hickup, and a 

 foaming at the mouth. Thus he continued for most part of the day. On 

 presenting a looking-glass before him, he was extremely disturbed at it, throw- 

 ing his head backwards with great violence, barking, and snapping at every 

 thing near him : in the evening, notwithstanding all the alexipharmics that were 



