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XXXIX. An extraordinary Cafe of a Drop/y of the Ovarium, 
with fome Remarks. By Mr. Philip Meadows Martineau,. 
Surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hojpital; communicated 
éy John Hunter, Bf. F. RK. S. 
Read July 5, 1784. 
ne ae KIPPUS, a pauper in the city of Norwich, was, 
7 for many years, a patient of my father’s, and, at his de- 
ceafe, was under the care of Mr. Scor, as city furgeon, who: 
obliged me many times by taking me to the poor woman, from: 
whom I received the account of the early part of her difeafe. 
Her complaints came on firft after a mifcarriage at the age of 
27. She had never been pregnant before; and her difcharges 
at that time were fo great as to bring her into a very weak 
condition. She foon perceived fome uneafinefs, attended with a 
fwelling, on one fide, which, after a few months, became too: 
large to diftinguifh whether it was greater on one fide or the 
other. As the {welling was found to arife from water, 
it was drawn off, which wasin the year 1757. She was never: 
afterwards pregnant; but the catamenia continued regularly 
till the ufual period of their ceffation. When I firft faw her,. 
which was in the year 1780, fhe had been many times tapped,. - 
and fhe was then full of water. Her appearance was truly 
deplorable, not to fay fhocking. She was rather a low woe 
man, and her body fo large as almoft wholly to:obfcure her 
face, as well as every other part of her: with all fhe was tole- 
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