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LXV. A farther Account of the Succefs of 
fame Experiments of injeBing Claret , &c. 
into the Abdomen , after Cupping . By Mr . 
Chriftopher Warrick. 
Read Feb. 12 Some time fince did myfelf the honour 
1 to lay before the Society an account 
of an improvement I had attempted on the opera- 
tion of tapping, by injecting the kbdomen, after the 
lymph was drawn off, with aftringents. This me- 
thod proving fuccefsful in the cafe of Jane Roman, 
(as mentioned in the Tranfadtions, No. 472) I was 
in hopes fome gentleman of better abilities, and larger 
experience, would have made further tryals ; but 
having not heard, that any attempt this way hath 
been made by others, and having lately met with three 
inftances, wherein my own endeavours have failed, 
I am under fome doubt, whether, upon the autho- 
rity of a fingle inftance, I have not been too fanguine 
in my hopes concerning it ; tho' the feeming rea- 
fonablenefs of fuch a fcheme, and the good event of 
it. under the very particular circumftances of that 
woman, ffill plead ftrongly with me in its favour. 
The firff is that of the poor woman at Gilbert, 
mentioned in the T’ranf actions , N°. 473, who was in- 
jected with claret and Briftol water, and about a week 
after the operation died fuddenly. She was upwards 
of fifty years of age. 
The fecond inftance is that of a young woman of 
St. Kivern, who was about twenty five, and had been 
thiee times tapped in the common way. Here we 
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