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with an Impofthume Lancet, laid open about an Inch, 
but finding nothing iffue, I enlarged it two Inches, and 
even then nothing catne forth but a little thin yellowifh 
Serum , fo 1 ventured to lay it open about two Inches 
more : I was not a little ftartled, after fo large an A- 
perture, to find only a glutinous Subftance bung up 
this Orifice. All my Difficulty was to remove it } I 
try’d my Probe, I endeavour’d with my Fingers, but 
all was in vain it was fo flippery that it eluded every 
Touch, and the ftrongeft hold I could take. 
I wanted, in this place, almoft every thing neceffiary, 
but bethought myfelf of a very odd Inftrument, yet as 
good as the beft in its Confequence, becaufe it anfwer’d 
the End propos’d. I took a ftrong Firr-Splinter, fuch 
as the Poor in that Country ordinarily ufe to burn in- 
Head of Candles j I wrapt about the End of this Splinter 
fome loofe Lint, and thruft it into the Wound, and by 
turning and winding it, I drew out above two Yards in 
Length of a Subftance thicker than any Gellie, or ra- 
ther like Glue that’s freffi made and hung out to dry • 
the Breadth of it was above ten Inches ^ this was fol- 
lowed by nine full Quarts of fuch Matter, as I have 
met with in Steatomatous and Atheromatous Tumours, 
with feveral Hydatides , of various Sizes, containing a 
yellowifh Serum , the leaft of ’em bigger than an O- 
range, with feveral large Pieces of Membranes, which 
feem’d to be Parts of the diftended Ovary. Then I 
fqueez’d out all I could, and ftitch’d up the Wound in 
three Places, almoft equi-diftant: I was oblig’d to make 
ufe of Lticatellus s Balfam, which was made by her 
Lady for the Ufe of the Poor ^ with this Balfam I co- 
vered a Pledget, the whole Length of the Wound, and 
over that laid feveral Compreftes, dipp’d in warm 
French Brandy, and becaufe I judg’d that the Parts 
might have loft their Spring, by fo vaft and fo long a 
Diftention 
