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fulness, though his constitution did not suffer so much as might reasonably 

 be imagined, from such profuse haemorrhages. He had no return of his 

 bleeding, or any thing like it, the ensuing autumn; but remained perfectly well 

 all the following winter season. Afterwards the Doctor had no opportunity of 

 making further personal inquiries, but was informed by an intelligent man, that 

 in March 1738 this unfortunate person got a slight wound again, somewhere 

 on one of his legs, which proved equally as difficult, with respect to the flux of 

 blood, as the first puncture in his foot. And, whether from too strict a restraint 

 of the haemorrhage, or for want of venesection, he fell into very violent con- 

 vulsions for 4 or 5 days, and died in a manner like suffocation, from too much 

 redundancy of blood. 



As this haemorrhage never once depended on any other disteinper, or observed 

 any regular concurrence with the revolutions of the moon, it appears to be a 

 very extraordinary simple plethora. During the 4 years that this flux of blood 

 came from the nose and intestines, the urine was never of a higher colour than 

 amber; nor was there any symptom of a fever by the pulse, or otherwise, for 

 the whole term of the disorder. 



March the 26th, 1739, the wife of Mr. Matth. Wilkinson, of Long Sutton, 

 in Lincolnshire, was tapped for an ascites, proceeding from frequent haemor- 

 rhages, and a too liberal use of small liquors. She was between 30 and 40 

 years old, of a very low stature, and always of a weak constitution. The water 

 was all taken away at one time, and measured 3 gallons. She was very faint 

 immediately after the operation, and remained so for near 3 weeks after. But, 

 by great abstinence from liquids, excepting Lower's bitter infusion, and some- 

 times a spoonful or two of cordial julep, she perfectly recovered her health 

 again ; and to a much better degree of it than she had enjoyed for many years 

 before; without any appearance at all of a return of the abdominal tumour. 

 The water was clear, and readily turned to a strong jelly on heating it; and Dr. 

 B. was certain, there was unavoidably left in the abdomen a quantity sufficient 

 to prove the existence of absorbent vessels. Perhaps those patients, in this 

 distemper, whose water turns to a jelly, have a better chance to be cured by 

 paracentesis, than others, whose discharge is more like urine, and will never 

 curdle by heat. But time and repeated observation must confirm this opinion. 



Concerning certain Chalky Tubulous Concretions, called Malm; tvith some Micro- 

 scopical Observations on the Farina of the Red Lilly, andof fVorms discovered 

 in Smutty Corn. By Mr. Turbevil Needham. N°471, p. 634. 

 The bed of malm lies in a valley, at the foot of a long ridge of chalky downs; 



extends from Winchester, where it begins, almost due south, about 4 miles 

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