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IV. A Method of conveying Liquors into the 
.Abdomen during the Operation ^Tapping ; 
propofed hy the Reverend Stephen Hales, 
D. D. and F. R. S. on Occajion of the pre- 
ceding Paper ; communicated in a Fetter to 
Cromwell Mortimer, M. D. Seer. R. S. 
S 1 R, 
Feb. 22. 1743-4. 
Read Feb. 23.lT t occurred to me, on your reading, 
I743 " 4 ' JL Thiirfday laft, before the Society, the 
Cafe of the Woman at Truro in Cornwall , who was 
cured of a Dropfy, by injecting into the Abdomen 
Brijtol Water and Cohore Wine, after having drawn 
off a good Quantity of the dropfical Lymph a ; that, 
in cafe of further Trial, that, or any other Liquor, 
fhall be found effectual to the Purpofe, it might be 
more comrriodioufly injected in the following Man- 
ner j viz. 
By having Two Trochars fixed at the fame time, 
one on each Side of the Belly; one of them having 
a Communication with a Veffel full of the medi- 
cinal Liquor by means of a fmall leathern Pipe: This 
IJquor might flow into the Abdomen , as faft as the 
dropfical Lympha pafled off through the other Tro- 
ckar whereby the dropfical Lympha might be con- 
veyed off, to what Degree it fhall be thought proper ; 
and that without any Danger of a Syncope from 
Inanition; becaufe the Abdomen would, through the 
whole Operation, continue diflended with Liquor, 
in fuch a Degree as fhall be found proper, by railing 
or lowering the Vc-lfcl with the medicinal Liquor in it. 
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