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matter iffued thro’ the wound by leaps, and was 
projected at the diftance of two yards and upwards 
from the patient’s body : he did not faint during the 
operation, nor afterwards ; but from that moment he 
grew eafy ; his fymptoms abated ; he flept well at 
night; and the next day he had no bad fymptoms, 
except that his difficulty in breathing was not quite 
removed. This, indeed, could not reafonably be ex- 
pected, confidering the long difufe and extenfion 
which the diaphragm, the intercoftal mufcles, and 
the reft of the mufcles of refpiration, had undergone 
from the prefliire and weight of the confined matter, 
joined to the injury which the lungs themfelves had 
fuftained. He continued with very little alteration 
till the fourth day, when his refpiration became worfe, 
accompanied with bad nights, a quick pulfe, a great 
difcharge of foetid matter from the wound, and a 
fiuffiing in his face. Thefe fymptoms remained till 
the pth. To-day his breathing was better, his pulfe 
became more calm, the flufhings in his face difap- 
peared j but the difcharge was confiderable in quan- 
tity, and he complained of a want of appetite, which, 
till now, had been tolerably good ever fince the ope- 
ration. On the tenth day, his difficulty of breathing 
returned ; the difcharge was very great, and often- 
five ; he had very little fleep laft night : in fhort, he 
feems greatly upon the decline, nth, 12th, and 
1 3th, he continued much as on the 10th. 14th and 
1 yth days he has had more fleep than ufual ; his ap- 
petite very bad ; cough frequent, and troublefome ; 
difcharge very thin, and confiderable in quantity. 
Upon exerting his powers in the aCt of expiration, to 
difcharge the matter from the cavity, there appeared 
an 
