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IX. An Obfervation of a white Liquor 
re [enabling Milk , 'which appeared in- 
Jlead of Serum [eparated from the 
Blood after it had flood fome time. 
By Alexander Stuart, M. D. Thyftcian 
in Ordinary to her Majefly 3 F. R. S. 
and of the College of Thy [mans, 
London. 
OHN WICKS, Carver, m Bromley -fir eet y 
about forty Years of A ge, had been ill about 
three Weeks by a Lofs of Appetite and Indigeftion, 
and at lafl a Pain and Diflention of his Stomach, 
with a low Degree of an inflammatory Fever ; his 
Tougue dry, rough, and of a rufty brown Colour 
in the Middle, with a white foft Lift on each Side s 
his Urine very high coloured, with a flimy Pink- 
coloured Settlement in great Quantity Stools very 
yellow and loofe. 
Eight Ounces of Blood being taken away,inflead 
of Serum nothing appeared above the Coagulum but 
ihis white Liquor, refembling Milk, which I pour- 
ed of F to the Quantity of four Ounces, or there- 
abouts. There was no Smell perceptible at firfl, 
but in fix Days it began to have the Smell of rotten 
Eggs : It flood in a Room, where there was a Fire 
for fome Hours of the Day, for three Weeks more, 
in which time it did not alter its Confiflence nosr 
Smell. 
