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The Quantity of Water taken from her each time 
of Tapping was between four and five Gallons ; and 
during the whole Fifty-feven times Tapping, there ne- 
verwas above a Quart, or two Quarts at tn oft, differ- 
ent in the Quantity, 'till the two laft times, at each 
of which the Quantity did not exceed two Gallons: 
But in the Intervals of thefe two laft Operations, fhe 
was frequently troubled with. Reachings to Vo- 
mit, which burft open the Orifice twice where fhe 
was tapped, and at each time difcharged about fix: 
Quarts. 
The- Quantity of Water which was taken from her 
each time was always meafured, and upon Computa- 
tion the whole amounts to near Two hundred and 
fifty Gallons. The Water that was taken from her 
the two laft times of Tapping was much more vifcid 
than the former,. 
At times (He frequently complained of a violent Earn 
on her Right Side, and a heavy aching Pain in the 
Pelvis. Shehad likewife a Prolapfus Uteri ; and 
fome time before her Death fhe could not expel her 
Faces but with great Difficulty and' Pain, and at the 
fame time laboured under an Incontinency of Urine. 
On Monday the dthof thislnftant I opened her in 
the Prefence of her Phyfician, when I found the whole 
Vifcera , from the Diaphragm to the Ojfa Pubis , 
covered with a thick, gelatinous Subftance,. which 
feemed to be membranous, which at itsfirft Appear- 
ancel took for the Omentum'vn. a putrified State; but 
after a farther Examination, I found it to be. only the 
more vifcid Parts of the extra va fated Fluid, which 
eould not be difcharged by the Operation : After 
removing this, I found feveral Portions of a hard 
fchirrous 
