lOS PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS, [aNNO 1771. 



solution boils away, more water must be added. None of the colour in the 

 operation separates from the water, but what adheres to the silk or cloth ; of con- 

 sequence this colour goes far in dying. Cochineal, Dutch litmus, orchel, 

 cudbear, and many other colouring substances treated in this manner, will all 

 dye silk, and wool of a yellow colour. The indigo which remains undissolved in 

 making Saxon blue, and is collected by filtration, if digested with spirit of nitre, 

 dyes silk and wool of all shades of brown inclining to a yellow. Cloth and silk 

 may be dyed green with indigo; but they must first be boiled in the yellow dye, 

 and then in the blue. 



XVl. Account of an extraordinary Steatomatous Tumour^ in the Abdomen of a 

 fFoman, By P. Hanley, M. D. p. 131. 



Mrs. Reily, aged 36, pale, tall, fleshy, and formerly of a healthy constitution, 

 was brought to bed of a strong, lively daughter, on the 23d of May, 1770, in 

 the parish of St. Anne, Dublin. In the 5th month of her pregi^ancy, she felt 

 an uncommon lump in her stomach, as she expressed it, about the size of a hen's 

 egg, which did not then give her much pain or uneasiness, and she was in hopes 

 that her delivery would carry it off: she had towards the end of her pregnancy 

 frequent retchings, sometimes puked, and became emaciated; three days after 

 she was brought to bed, she found the lump and retchings had increased; she 

 became very uneasy, and sent for Dr. H. On examining her abdomen, he felt 

 a considerable tumour contiguous to her stomach, which afterwards had greatly 

 increased, and was extended obliquely to her right side, as low as her navel; it lay 

 immediately under the peritoneum and abdominal muscles, and in the progress of its 

 increase, he could plainly feel one large, and other smaller protuberances, of a firm 

 substance, in some measure resembling the head and superior extremities of a foetus. 

 It could be easily moved from side to side, without giving her any pain; but it 

 resisted, and made her uneasy, when he attempted to move it downwards: her 

 abdomen appeared plump and full, as if she had not been brought to bed; but the 

 hypochondres were more prominent and distended, than the region below her 

 navel. He ordered for her the simple bitter infusion with absorbent powders, 

 and delayed giving deobstruent medicines, till she had recovered her strength 

 after lying-in. He also desired her not to suckle her infant: but, as her 

 husband was poor, she did not comply, by which means she quickly became 

 greatly exhausted and emaciated. 



In a fortnight after her delivery, she got up daily, walked about her room^ 

 sometimes went abroad, and continued to suckle her child; but the retchings 

 returned at intervals, the tumour increased in size, its protuberances became 

 larger and more distinct, she was often restless, and in pain at night on lying in 

 bed, had a hectic fever, and daily became weaker and more emaciated, with a 

 sharp pinched-up nose, hipprocratic coimtenance, small, quick, weak, thread-like 

 pulse, loss of appetite, and night sweats. 



