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berftrength dejefled, ina wordjikera than a living 
Body ; he calls together divers of his Co!leagues,to view this 
miferable Cr€ature,who being now rufficleiitly convinced of 
the nature of this Diftemper, did,thoi]gh the cafe was now de- 
fperate, refolve upon the ufe ofa paracentefis or incifionjwhich 
the Patient abhorring, fte was lefc to her felf, and dyed three 
months after* Her body being open'd, there foon appeared a 
great lake of water ; whence at firft ir feeui'd to be a coiiniioiJ 
Jfcites^ a tumor of waters ftagnating in the abdomen^ Then the 
Liver being look'd after, it was no where feeiuNext the other 
vtfccra being fought for, viz. theMefentery, Fmcrea^^ Spleen^ 
and Kidneys, none of them all appeared neither, to theaflonilTi- 
ment of all that were prefent, who fearching furtherjand meet- 
ing with the ieritonmm^ found it to be turned into a bagg,by 
a fepararion made of its interior membrane from its exterior , 
and fo enclofingwithin it the whole bulk of that reftagnanc 
water, that not a drop of it had been able to get out into the 
abdomen. This coded no fmall trouble to render it confpi- 
cuous, by emptying this fack of all the Seyum/and fo difcove- 
ring both fides of the bagg, made up of the double feritom- 
um^ whofe inner skin had been fever'd from the outer, flicking 
to the tranfverfeMufclesof t\\Q Epigafirmm^ the hydropical 
waters having forced the inner membrane inwards into the hol- 
low of the abdomen]md fo forming it into the fhape of a bagg, 
whofe compafs reached from the pubes unto the diaphragme , 
and from the left region of the loyns to the right ^ fo that the 
nervous body of the feritomum^hting here very thick and clofe 
withal, was by little and little expanded,as the capacity of the 
w^omb in gravidation is ftill more and more enlarged* Where ir 
feems worth inquiring ; Whence this periunmm had acquired 
this extraordinary thicknefs, being thicker and clofer than any 
Gxe-hide,whereas naturally 'tis as thin as any fitken webbf But 
to proceed: This bagg of the pmV^?;;*^/^/^ being removed, the 
vijcera, came to view, which were not gravelly, nor tartareous, 
nor chalky,(as they often are in Hydropical bodies,) but only 
decayed and colourlefs : Which decay by the timely ufe of an 
Incifion might have been prevented. 
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