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IV. A Letter from Mr. Chr. Warren, Sur- 
geon at Truro in Cornwall, to John 
Machin, Lfq ; Seer. R. S. Prof. Aflr. 
Greiham. containing further Accounts of the 
Succefs of inje&ing medicated Liquors into 
the Abdomen, in the Cafe of an Afcites. 
Read May 24. 
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*3’ I R, 
BEG Leave to return my beft Thanks 
to the Society in genera!, and to you. 
Sir, in particular, for their unanimous Thanks to 
me, and their Approbation of what I communicated 
to them in relation to Jane Roman *, whom I tapp'd 
and injected for a Dropfy, and yet remains in Jtatu 
quo ; tho’ fhe inform'd me Yefterday, that fhe had 
iabour’d under a Tertian Ague ever it nee laft Janu- 
ary : Indeed I fnould not wonder, if, after Nineteen 
Months Space, fhe fhould want the fame Operation 
again, in a Country where Poifon [a Dram] is ha- 
bitually become the common Nutriment, Phyfician, 
and Counfellor on all Occafions. 
Your kind Communication of Dr. Hales's judicious 
Remarks and Improvement on my Difcovery -f*, docs 
me great Honour and Pleafure; and the more fo, as 
I was fo happy as to have difeover’d the Ufe and 
Efficacy of Injedions by means of one Pundure only, 
on a poor Woman, about Ten Days before I received 
yours ; from whom I drew near fifty Pints of drop- 
iical Lymph, by an eafy Tranfmutation thereof into 
* See Pbilof. Tranf Num. 472, p, 12. -f See ibid. p. 20. 
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