538 Dr. Fisner’s Acciunt of 
rectum, by which a quantity of bloody pus was, at length, dif- 
charged. Her bowels were generally conftipated, and when 
the fymptoms were the moft fevere, the difcharge of urine was 
finall, and attended with pain. 
‘The principal medicines that I made ufe of, were 222/. falin. 
OL. Ricin. with anodynes p.r.n. Inthe fpace of a few weeks, 
the fymptoms of inflammation difappeared, the fecretions and: 
excretions became free, arid by the ufe of the bark and gentle: 
exercife, fhe recovered a confiderable degree of ftrength, the: 
fymptoms aring merely from diftenfion and compreftion so 
ing very tolerable. This truce lafted about two months : 
faddéa fuppreffion of perfpiration was followed by a return 4 
her complaints with redoubled violence, and fome paralytic; 
fymptoms. On the twelfth day of her relapfe, fhe difcharged a: 
confiderable quantity of purulent matter, intermixed with fome 
blood and fæces, but without any relief, and fhe died: on the: 
fourteenth. In. her laft ftruggles, which were very violent, 
the difcharged ( probably per vagimam) a quantity of -darkithy 
water, refembling high-colour'd urine, amounting,. by eftima- . 
tion, toat leaft two: gallons. . This difcharge confiderably re~., 
duced the bulk. of tbe abdomen, efpecially of the left fide. 
The day after her death, I went about noon, with the Rey.) . 
Mr. Cutler, of Ipfwvich, and Dr. Spafford, of Beverly, to open: 
the body. We expected that i it would not be buried till the 
day following, but to our great difappointment,. found it was. 
to be interred the fame afternoon : at length, however, we were 
allowed an hour to examine it. 
On opening the abdomen, which now appeared about «s large | 
as in the. lit month of pregnancy, a preternatural fubftance. . 
prefented it@lf, fituate a little' more to the right fide than to 
