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Hi. Remarks, tah^n upon VijfsSiing the Body of 
A» M. a Maid of abont thirty Tears of Age^ 
who dyed of an Afckes, the Firfi of Auguft, 
TO prevent the too impetuous Eruption of tfie 
contained Liquor ( in cafe [ncifion had been pre- 
fentiy made ) we nnade a Perforation of the Abdomen^ 
in themoft prominent parr, as theBodj^ lay along, by 
a Taracentefis, extrafting through a fmall Canula, to the 
quantity of three Gallons : Afterwards we laid the Corps 
upon a Table, in the fame pofture, where we made In- 
cifion, beginning between the Vmhilkus and the CartV" 
lagO'Enfiformis^ dilating ftill as we emptied, till we had 
made room for a Quart- pot, with which we drew our, 
to thrNumber of Seventy Six good meafured Quarts 
( accounting the three Gallons which were extrafted be- 
fore) of a fubfaline and fomewhat auftere Serum^ which 
amounts to the quantity of Nineteen Gallons, befides 
what was imbibed with our Spunges, not improbably 
two Quarts more. 
I did admire, whilft we were emptying this Liquor, 
that I could perceive none of the Vifcera fludtuating in 
the fame, which I have known cuftomary, and I believe 
is common with moft Hydropick Bodies 5 I remember 
'twas the fear of this did once retard an Eminent Phy- 
fician, from a Paracentejis upon his Patient, left the Sur- 
geon in making Perforation ftiould Puncture the Inte- 
Itines, In this Body there was no interpofing Body , 
Parenchymatous or Gland ulous, to augment the Circum- 
ference of this Prodigious Inundation. For after the 
drying up the rcfidue of this Humour ( which in colour 
and confidence did fomewhat referable Water, wherein 
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