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flow through the cannula; repeated injections as before; and once more, without 

 the least intermption, replenished her with them. 



This total discharge, however, made a great alteration in the face of aflairs ; 

 and her being full, and under distention, now altered not the case, as it did at 

 first. A pungent pain possessed her breast, frequently darting through all the 

 viscera ; her breathing became extremely difficult ; her pulse faltered ; the syncope 

 returned; and she became speechless. Under these circumstances it was high 

 time to conclude his design ; and therefore, having emptied the cavity, as well as 

 the violence of them would permit it, he withdrew the cannula, applied proper 

 compress and bandage, and finished the operation after the usual manner ; which 

 was the more agreeable, as it ended with the perfect recovery of her senses. 



The day following, Oct. 30, on repeating his visit, which he did for divers 

 others successively, he found things under a favourable disposition; a gentle 

 diaphoresis, from a liberal use of cardiac medicines, having totally removed the 

 syncope, dyspnoea, and all other complaints. 



Nov. 12, He renewed the bandage, and set her on foot again. 



The 24th he saw her again for the same purpose; found the swelling in the 

 extremities going off, her heart in a chearful disposition, her appetite strong, and 

 no symptom of a relapse, as she formerly had long before that time approaching. 



Dec. 1 . The last visit he made her, she told him, that there was no further oc- 

 casion for his assistance. Finding every thing therefore in a favourable way, her 

 appetite well, her urine in due quantity, her breathing clear, and the extreme 

 parts of their natural size, he left her in pursuit of that health which she soon 

 acquired, and continued to enjoy. 



A Method of conveying Liquors into the Abdomen during the Operation of 

 Tapping ; proposed by the Rev. Stephen Hales, D. D. and F. R. S. on Occasion 

 of the preceding Paper. N''472, p. 20. 



It occurred to Dr. H. on hearing read the case of the woman in Cornwall, that, 

 if, on further trial, that, or any other liquor, should be found effectual to 

 the purpose, it might be more commodiously injected thus: viz. By having 2 

 trochars fixed at the same time, one on each side of the belly; one of them having 

 a communication with a vessel full of the medicinal liquor by means of a small 

 leathern pipe: this liquor might flow into the abdomen, as fast as the dropsical 

 lympha passed off through the other trochar; by which the dropsical lympha might 

 be conveyed off to what degree it shall be thought proper; and that without any 

 danger of a syncope from inanition ; because the abdomen would, through the 

 whole operation, continue distended with liquor, in such a degree as should be 

 found proper; by raising or lowering the vessel with the medicinal liquor in it. 



It is probable, that if the surface of the medicinal liquor be about a foot higher 



