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Symptom of the Difeafe, a large Quantity of extra- 
vafated Waters in the Cavity of the Abdomen , di in- 
tending it to an enormous Size, and perceptibly 
fluctuating. Her more inferior Parts were likewife 
fwoln to an uncommon Magnitude, with livid Spots 
and V efications in divers Places. Under thefe Circum- 
fiances, and already fatiatcd with tedious Courfes of 
ineffectual Medicines, I drew from her {Sept. 20th) 
Thirty-flx Pints of a greenifh tranfparent Lymph, by 
a Taracente/is made after the ufual Manner 5 whereby 
her Complaints vanifhed, and lire was foon re-efla- 
blifned on Foot again. With fome Part of the ex- 
traded Lymph, which I had conveyed to my own 
Houfe, on my Return thither, I made the following 
Obfervations : 
O B S. I. 
Being as warm as it came from the Abdomen, with 
one Pint of it I mixed the like Quantity of frefh 
Briflol Water ; and immediately a flight Coagulum 
enfued. 
Obs. II. 
In mixing equal Parts of warmed Lymph and 
Cohere Claret together, the fame Phenomenon 
appeared 5 the Coagulum fubftded, and the Mixture 
became milky. 
Obs. III. 
Being mixed with Pyrmont Water, it manifefted 
little or no Change, only went turbid. 
Obs. IV. 
I mixed a Decodion of the Cortex with the like 
Quantity of warm Lymph, and it dropped a branny 
Sediment. 
Obs. 
