VI. A Rupture of the Navel, communicated 
to the Royal Society by H. W. Taube, 
(Dove) Surgeon of the Pearl Man of War . 
T.ead May 24. Stubbensfull had a very hard La- 
! 744- /l 5 our iy Years before her Death, and 
a little Rupture appeared in her Navel, and in the 
next Labour it increafed ; which (he endeavoured to 
cure by a Bandage, but in vain } fo it continued to 
increafe more and more. 
The fir ft time I was called to her, was upon ac- 
count of a Wound at Lett. d. where it looked as if 
it would mortify f which I cured, but left a Place open 
as big as Half a Crown, from which a great Quantity 
of Water would fometimes run out ; but getting Cold^ 
it flopped; and the whole Saccus was very much in- 
flamed (This Wound was formerly made by uneafy 
Trufles). I called on the late Mr .Amimdi who told 
me, he had feen in a Workdioufe a Rupture of the 
fame Kind, but not fo big. 
She had once an Obfrubtio alvi for fifteen Days ; 
and nothing would do, till I order’d her a Glyfter of 
Tobacco boil’d with Urine. The late Dr. James 
Douglafs faw her ,• and he and I agreed to open her 
after her Death ; to which fhe conlented. Ac lad, flie 
died maniacal. Dr. Douglafs and I would have open’d 
her ; but the Obftinacy of her Children was fo great, 
that they would not agree to it till the fourth Day 
after her Death, which happened in July-, when the 
Putrefadlion was fo great, that Dr. jDouglafs , nor I, 
nor any body elfc, could remain by her ; and fo were 
obliged, to our great Sorrows, to defift. 
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