[ >* 3 
III. An Improvement on the \ TraEUce of Tap- 
ping ; whereby that Operation , inftead of a 
Relief for Symptoms , becomes an abfolute 
Cure for an Afcites, exemplified in the Cafe 
of Jane Roman ; and recommended to the 
Confederation of the Royal Society, by Chri- 
ilopher Warrick, of Truro, Surgeon . 
Read Feb. 1 6. jL M O N G all the Operations of Sur- 
■" 743 ' 4 » gery, perhaps there is not one, of 
equal Importance, lefs oblig’d to Improvements, 
than that of the Raracentejis ; it being, at this time, 
notwithftanding the frequent Ufe thereof, in the 
fame State of Imperfedion as when firft introduced 
among us ; a mere palliative Remedy, or a Relief for 
Symptoms. Mr. Monro and Mr. Garengeot have, 
indeed, thrown fome confiderable Lights thereon ; 
the former, * by fubftituting a Belt, inftead of the 
ordinary long Bandage for comprefling the Abdomen , 
and in afeertaining the proper Place of Pundure ; 
the latter, in making the Evacuation at once, and in 
xinfing the emptied Cavity, to remove the feculent 
Part of the Waters; which, fubfiding therein, and 
being apt, by its Acrimony, to make rude Impref- 
fions on the Vifcera, he fays, f frequently occafion 
Mortifications thereof. Thefe are, I believe, the 
only Improvements therein ; at leaft, that feem to 
* Vide Medical E flays, Vol. I. Art. 18. f Traite des Operations 
■de Chirurgie, Chap. 6. Art. 6< tk.la Paracenthefe. 
have 
