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method for three or four months beyond the ninth, thinking she had counted 

 wrong ; but at last she was persuaded to take medicines, and underwent a very 

 strict course, as is usual in hydropical cases. Her legs did not swell nor pit ; 

 her belly was unequal, and the swelling more on the right side, so that the 

 naval was thrust over to the left side. She had also discutient plaihters applied 

 to her belly: but all in vain, excepting that with much anxiety, gripes, and 

 trouble, so much water might be evacuated, as to bring down her belly three 

 or four inches. At length she submitted to a tapping, which was performed at 

 several times, by discharging great quantities, of first a limpid thick serum, like 

 whites of eggs, insipid and coagulable by heat into the like substance ; it came 

 afterwards to the colour and consistence of thin honey, and coagulated on eva- 

 poration. Some time after she fell into a fever, with a great thrush, hickups, 

 and in about Q days she died. 



Out of her body, when dissected, was discharged some buckets of the same 

 watery substance that had been discharged by the tapping ; part of it was float- 

 ing in the abdomen, but far the greater part voided out of large and thick 

 bags, some of which were as large as the stomach, others smaller, many of 

 them rotted to pieces, and all of them in the right ovary or testicle: the uterus, 

 tuba fallopiana, and eveiy thing else was sound, except the omentum, which 

 was quite consumed; what was very strange was, that several bags of the larger 

 size, in this ovary, contained others smaller within them ; and the larger were 

 filled with a sweet liquor, and the smaller with a substance like whites of eggs. 

 Here and there between were imposthumes, which were small, and filled with 

 yellow matter. The gall-bladder was full of several triangular yellow stones. 

 She was very lean all over her body, and never had her legs swell or pit ; nor 

 the noise of water on her stirring in bed, till some small time before tapping, 

 when she fell into so great an orthopnaea, that she could not breathe unless in 

 an erect posture. 



The great Tendon above the Heel, after an entire Division of it, stitched and 

 cured. Bij Mr. Ifilliam Coivper, F. R.S. N° 252, p. )53. 



Bting called to Thomas Wheatly, a carpenter, aged 33, who had totally 

 divided the great tendon of the musculi gastrocnemii of the left leg, about 3 

 fingers breadth above the os calcis, I fuund the upper part of the tendon with- 

 drawn from the lower at least 1 inches. 



The applications being prepared, and two or three large needles, with strong 

 silk in them, well waxed, I was first obliged to divide the external teguments, 

 a, b, fig. 5, pi. 8, to come at the ends of the divided tendon, a, b. This 

 done, I passed the first needle c through the body of the tendon A, about half 



