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XV. Two remarkable Medical Cafes, one of 
an Extraordinary Hemorrhage, the other 
an Afcites cured by Tapping $ communicated 
by Henry Banyer, M. 2). Extra- Licentiate 
of the College of Phyficians, London, to 
C. Mortimer, M. 2). Seer. R. S. 
Read Dec. iz. T* N the Month of 'January 1729. Ha- 
|[ niel Goddard, a Gardener, about the 
Age of Twenty-four Years, at Wisbech in the Ifle of 
Ely, Cambridgefhire , happened of a flight Pun&ure 
from a rufty Nail in the Sole of his Right Foot. And, 
notwithftanding there was not wounded any Tendon, 
or Blood- vefiel, larger than fmall Eranches of Veins, 
the whole Foot was immediately fwellcd to a very 
unufual Degree, without any Fever, or other apparent 
Caufe for it. It was alfo attended with great Pain, 
and an extraordinary Pulfation upon the Part, as in 
Wounds of Arteries ; and fo diftended as if the Blood 
would burft out of its VelTels. 
Accordingly, after Two Days, upon opening a fuper- 
ficial Sinus, to inlarge the Wound, there rufhed out 
immediately fuch an obftinate Flux of Blood, as would 
not yield to any ftyptic Means, longer than the 
Bandage was holden on by fome ftrongHand. And, 
although, by this Incifion, no Veflels were wounded, 
but Capillary Veins ; yet this Hemorrhage continued 
to flaew itfelf as violent as at firft, for Six Days fuc- 
cdlively, whenever the neceffary Means were relaxed. 
Upon which, for the fake of Revulfion , the Patient 
had 
