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afiiftance, being no Strangers to your great Abiiiiy both in 
Anatomy and Surgery. About a week before, the Pus 
had begun again to encreaf^, and the day before thefe 
Gentlemen faw her the wa9 taken in the afternoon with a, 
chilnefSj iifter which her Pulfe became a h'ttle quicker, and 
flie a little Fevcrifb^ as I bciieve you remember (be was, 
when you applied theCauftick ^ this Feverifli ftate encreafed 
every day^and after feme days a Ralh appear d.which lafted 
about 14 days before it was quite got off, and left 
her in a Heftick,. with rednefs in her Cheeks towards everh- 
Jng, Night Sweats, continual Loofenefs, extreme wafting ol 
her Fledi, and at length a fwelling in her Legs, though flie 
kept her Bed. I doubt not but you remember that w^fdt fomc 
Jittle "knots betwixt the feventh and eighth Rib, which 
with other circumftances made us conclude the adhefiori 
was in that part, and would have laid the Caaftick tJiere^ 
but that it would certainly have fpread to the Glands of he? 
Left Breaft, which made us lay it between the fixth luui 
ftventh Rib, (^fnrfum mm^rafido^ 5 As fcon as you could yoir 
took it off, and with your Knife gently pafs'd riirougii into 
the Cavity of her Breaft^whenceiiTued a BlocdyifhVVatei%bi]t 
no Pus 5 by bending your Probe you found the adhefion 
reach to the lower edge of the 7th R-ib, and before the 
Efchar ¥;as Tc^parated? the Pus began to flow at every dref- 
■fing, and fo continued, gradually abating, till the Ulcer 
was cured ^ during which a part of the iniide of that Rib, 
above an inch long exfoliated, and after that another lelTer 
piece of the outfide of the Rib. Towards the latter end of 
the Cure, flic complained very much of a pain at the Car* 
tllago Enjiformls^ fo great that (he fometimes plucked out 
the hollow Ternt, which v/e conceiv'd was occafioned by its 
prefling upoo the Nerye^ during the firfk 7 or 8 days of her 
Rafli, me raised very little, if any, of that Pus, nor did ir 
difcharge its felf then by the Oriike, nor was there a col- 
r|eaion qt it in her &'ealt, which madame apprehend^ that 
' the JTever' did To'^aJftr ibe ftatc of her Rlood, as not to per- 
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