
472 Mr. MarTInEAau’s Account of ae 
rably chearful, and feldom regarded the operation. 1 faw her 4 
juft before we took away 106 pints of water, and I begged 4 
leave to take a meafure of her. She was fixty-feven inches and 
a half in circumference, and ftom the cartilago enfiformis to 
the os pubis thirty-four inches. Her legs were now greatly 
{welled; but this, and every other fymptom of which the 
complained, evidently arofe from the quantity and weight of 
water. She neither ate nor drank much, and made but a {mall 
quantity of urine. 
The operation of drawing off the water was generally per- 
formed on a Sunday, as the moft convenient day for her neigh- 
bours to affift her; and before the latter end of the week the 
was able to walk very well. She was firft tapped in the year 
1757, and died in Auguft 1783. Thus fhe lived full twenty-five 
years with fome intervals of eafe, having eighty times under- 
gone the operation, and in all had taken from her 6631 pints 
of water, or upwards of thirteen hogfheads. 
I will fubjoin the account of the dates, and the quantity 
drawn off at each time, as given me by Mr. Sco, obferving 
that till 1769 no exact memorandum was kept, except of the 
number of times, although the quantity of water drawn off 
was always meafured. By my father fhe was tapped twenty- 
fix times, averaged at 70 pints each time: by Mr. Donne once, 
73 pints, which makes 1683 pints from fome part of the ir 
1757 to-1769. By Mr. Scorr as follows : | 
1769. 

