634 I'HILtJSOiHICAL TKANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1732. 



The quantity of water taken from her each time of tapping, was between 4 

 and 5 gallons; and during the whole 57 times tapping, there never was above 

 1 or 2 quarts at most, different in ihe quantity, till the last two times, at each 

 of which the quantity did not exceed 2 gallons: but in the intervals of these 

 last two operations, she was frequently troubled with retchings to vomit, 

 which burst open the orifice twice where she was tapped, and at each time dis- 

 charged about 6 quarts. 



The quantity of water which was taken from her each time was always mea- 

 sured, and on computation the whole amounts to near 250 gallons. The water 

 that was taken from her the last two times of tapping was much more viscid 

 than the former. 



At times she frequently complained of a violent pain on her right side, and 

 a heavy aching pain in the pelvis. She had likewise a prolapsus uteri; and some 

 time before her death she could not expel her f;Eces but with great difficulty 

 and pain, and at the same time laboured under an incontinency of urine. 



March 6, 1731-2, Mr. B. opened her in the presence of her physician, 

 when he found the whole viscera, from the diaphragm to the ossa pubis, covered 

 with a thick gelatinous substance, which seemed to be membranous, which at 

 its first appearance he took for the omentum in a putrefied state; but after a 

 further examination, he found it to be only the more viscid parts of the extra- 

 vasated fluid, which could not be discharged by the operation : after removing 

 this, he found several portions of a hard scirrhous substance arising from the 

 fundus of the stomach, one large portion of which was inserted into that part 

 of the colon near the right kidney, and in appearance resembled the pancreatic 

 gland. Another portion, which was cylindrical, and about j- of an inch in 

 diameter, passed straight over the intestines, adhering strongly to that part 

 of the colon which lies under the stomach, and was inserted into the rectum, 

 in the pelvis. Another portion of this substance passed directly over the intes- 

 tines to the pelvis; but about the middle of the abdomen it sent out 2 smaller 

 portions, the one inserted into the mesentery, the other reflecting back, was 

 inserted into the colon on the left side, near the stomach. As soon as he cut 

 into one of these portions, he discovered it to be a part of the omentum twisted 

 up, and contained in a very thick capsular membrane. 



The diaphragm was forced up so far by the contents of the abdomen, that 

 the cavity of the thorax was decreased to near ^. 



The liver was much larger than in a natural state, and of one entire substance, 

 and not divided into lobes, the whole convex surface adhering firmly to the 

 diaphragm. 



The stomach was very small, as to its cavity, but its coats were increased to 



