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tinged of a Coffee- Colour, limpid as Urine, and not 
in the leaft fetid. This Warer was carefully mca- 
fur'd, and found to be not above a Pint lets than 
thirty Gallons Wine Meafure ; which mull weigh, 
according to the common Calculation, near 24.0 /. 
We afterwards made an Incifion into the Abdo- 
men along the Linen alba. The Integuments 
upon the epigaftric Region were very thin 5 the ab- 
dominal Mufcles much extenuated 5 and above the 
Umbilicus the Tunica celiulpfd contain'd no Fat 3 but 
from the Navel to the Os * Pubis , the ' Panniculns 
adipofus was half an Inch thick. Upon dilating the 
Incifion* the large membranous Bag that contain'd 
the Water prefented itfelf to View, adhering tranf- 
vcrfly about ten Inches to the anterior Part of the 
Peritoneum. 
This Adhefion being feparated, we had a full 
View of this wonderful Refervoir, which was of an 
enormous Size, and had almoft occupied the whole 
Cavity of the Abdomen. In Figure, Colour, Thick- 
nefs, Number, Magnitude, and Diftribution of Blood 
veffels, it very much rdembled the Uterus of a 
Cow at the End of Geftation. The whole Infide was 
fcabrous, and look'd as if parboil'd 5 and here and 
there was obferv’d a fmall Quantity of a Coffee- 
colour'd Sediment. Gn the left inferior Part was 
difeover'd the Orifice of a Dud, which open'd ob- 
liquely into the Cavity of the Saccus , and would 
eafily admit of a large Goofe Quill. From this Open- 
ing the Tube advanc'd about twelve Inches between 
the Membranes of the Bag obliquely upward?, and 
towards the right, from whence it was infleded 
downwards, and pafs'd between the Duplicating of 
the 
