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woul .1 hereafter be out of the Power of Art to giv« 
her the Relief, (he 0111(1 languifli for till Deathj unlefs 
favour’d by fome unlikely and extraordinary Accident. 
However conlidently I affirm’d it, they liRened with 
a Mixture of Disbelief and Amazement, and rejeded 
my Affidance. At that Time, in Probability, it would 
have been fuccefsful for (lie was a (lender welJ-(hap’d 
Woman, in good Habit of Body, and of a fprightly 
Difpolition. 
It was a Year after this, when Mrs. Hexel, a noted 
Midv/ife in St. y^/w^Ys Pariffi, defir’d me again to vi- 
lit her. I found her much diforder’d by a growing Im- 
polthumation in her Belly : I order’d her fome cordial 
Stomachicks, Cajjia, and fuch gentle Lenitives ^ and 
they met a Succefs beyond my Expedlation : So that, 
by aid of a regular Diet, and the watchful Exadnefs 
of a very tender Mother (a Nurfe of above thirty Years 
Experience about this City) I reftor’d her to fuch 
Strength, that (he- went chearfully Abroad, and re-ap- 
ply’d herfelf to Bufinefs. I told her (he might frankly 
benefit herfelf by my Advice, or my Medicines : And- 
(he call’d as (he found Occalion. 
But about fifteen Months from the Time when I 
vifited her firft, her Mother came from her to entreat 
my Affiftance: She complain’d of great Pain in the 
lower Part of her Abdomen'^ and I found a Tumour of 
a conick Form, projeding about an Inch beneath the 
Umbilicus : Its Inflammation, with Tenlion, and a Fe- 
veriffinefs attending it, fo plainly indicated Suppura- 
tives, that I was not furpriz’d to hear, in a few Days, 
that it had broke, as I wiffi’d. 
I propofed to lay it open, both to give a free Emif- 
fion, and prevent its becoming fiftulous, but (he was 
apprehenflve, that I would, as (he call’d it, cut open 
her 
