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in the leaft fufpended, altho’ the openings made into 
the cavity have been very large, and the time taken 
for dreffing the patient (fometimes once, fometimes 
twice a day) has been very confiderable ; but, on the 
contrary, at every dreffing, I have obferved, that the 
patient has breathed with greater freedom and eafe 
than he could do before the performance of this ope- 
ration, or even for fome hours before the dreffings 
were renewed. As the matter in this difeafe lies 
loofely in the cavity of the thorax, there is no greater 
danger of wounding the lungs in this operation, than 
there is of wounding the inteftines or omentum, in 
tapping the abdomen in the afcites ; and if the me- 
thod be purfued, which I have recommended for 
making the ineffion thro’ the intercollal mulcles, 
there will be no danger of wounding the intercoftal 
artery, which is a circumftance much dreaded by 
fome practitioners, but with no great reafon. How- 
ever, was this to happen, it would probably not be 
attended with any bad confequences, as the bleeding 
might very readily be flopped by preffnre, or other- 
wile. 
Hatton Garden, 
June 28, 1759. 
Warner. 
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