the Child ftir, put a flop to that Courfe, and went on 
expeding the good Hour, having prepared all things 
for the Child to be Born, and herfelf during her Lying- 
in. She delayed the propofcd Method, for three or four 
Months beyond Nine, thinking flic had counted wrong ; 
but at laft flhe was perfwaded to Medicines, and under- 
went a very ftrid Courfe, as for Hydroptck People ; 
her Legs did not fwell nor pic , her Belly was uneq js], 
and the Swelling more of the Right- fide, fo thst the Na- 
vel was thruft over to the othtr, or left fide. She had 
alfo refolving Plaifters applied to her BelLy, buta'l 
in vain, excepting that with much Anxiety, Gripes, and 
Trouble, fo much Water might be evacuated, as to. 
bring down her Belly three or four Inches ; (he then 
coniulted other Phyficians and Quacks, but in vain ; 
and finding her B eathing very djfBculrj and reduced 
to a very narrow compafs, Ihe hearkened to a Tapping, 
or a Para<:€ntefis ^ which was propofed by fome as 
what would be the means of her Recovery. This was 
after a fuitable Prognoftick refolved on, and performed 
at feveral times, by difcharging great quantities, of firft 
a fimpid thic^"lStTum, as whites of Eggs, infipid and 
Goagulable into the hke Subftance by heat ; it came af- 
terwards to the Colour and Confiftence of thin Honey, 
and Coagulated on Evaporation. In fome time Ihe fell 
into aFevei^, with a great Thrufb, Hickups,%nd in about 
Nine days dyed. Out of whofeBody, when Difle£!:ed 
after Death, was difcharged fome Buckets of the fame 
Watery Subftance that had been difcharged by the Pa* 
racentefn ; part of this was floating in the Ahdomen^ 
but far the greater voided out of great and thick Bags, 
feme of which were as large as the Stomach, others 
fmaller, many of them rotted to pieces, and all of them 
in the right Ovary or Tefticie : the^/^ra, Tula FaSo- 
