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fibly increafed ; and perceiving a Swelling in that 
Part, (heat firft thought herfelf with Child ; but ha- 
ving other Symptoms not very common with gravid 
Women, (he fent for a Phyfician, who immediately 
difcovered it to be Hydropical, and after following his 
Prefcriptions for fome time, and finding little or no 
Benefit thereby, fhe fent for another, and fo for a 
third and fourth ; and after between two and three 
Years fruitlefs Trial of proper Medicines prefcribed by 
the Phyficians, fhe growing very big and uneafy with 
her Burden, was advifed to be tapped, to which (he 
accordingly fubmitted : And on May the 6th, 1718, 
fent for Mr. Chefelden, who took from her between 
four and five Gallons of Water; but in a Week or ten 
Days after the Operation fhe perceived her felf to fill 
again, in which State fhe continued to the firft Day of 
July following, when Mr. Chefelden tapped her again, 
and took from her about the fame Quantity of Water 
as before ; and in this Manner fhe continued to fill 
and be tapped every third or fourth Week, from the 
6th Day of May, 1718, to the 3d of this Inftant 
Manly 173!, when fhe died, in the Thirty-third 
Year of her Age; 
During the laft Thirty-feven times of her Tapping, 
I conftantly attended her with Mr. Chefelden, when 
fhe always ('till the two laft times) appeared very 
forifk and liyely the whole time of the Water’s running- 
from her, and was not in the leaft fick or faint after 
the Difcharge of the Water, as is ufual ; and though 
fhe was a very thin emaciated Woman, fhe would fre- 
quently walk three or four Miles the Day before the 
Operation, and moft commonly went abroad the third 
Day after it. 
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