A Tumour in the With. " 
"An extenfive incifion was accordingly made through the restus 
Len at a fufficient diftance from the ufual courfe of the epi- 
gaftric artery to avoidall danger of wounding it, and about pint 
of watery matter immediately iffued through the orifice ; after 
which about the fame quantity of pure pus was difcharged. ~ 
On introducing two or three fingers into the cavity, a quantity 
of foft fabftance was felt within it, much about the confiften- 
‘cy of foft foap. I immediately made ufe of a table-fpoon, as 
the moft convenient inftrument that could be readily procured 
for extracting it, and about a pound of it was at this time 
obtained ; after which, as a degree of faintnefs began to enfue, 
the wound was dreffed, and the patient placed in her bed, in a 
proper. fituation for kr eai of a free — of any fluid that 
a ale ta res fps. ite, 
“At the three or om mene éretfidos, a portion of the 
fame fubftance was taken out, till the whole —€ it 
"amounted to the quantity of about four pounds. TE D mee 
At “each drefling, the matter was ' particularly’ 'examin- 
ed, and was found to contain a large quantity of fhort hair 
‘or wool, about three quarters of an inch long, uniformly mixed 
bikes it, as is er in i das — p pe 
foreign body which pi be e ih it; but rudi 
fome of the gentlemen prefent, on fappofition of an cu 
expected to have found the former, yet nothing ot 
uterine fatus, either 
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