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fufficient quantity therefore of claret and Rriftol water 
being got ready, Mr. Rice, whole patient die was, 
made the pundture ; but on withdrawing the perfora- 
tor, inftead of lymph, nothing but- a thick, ropy, gela- 
tinous fluid came thro’ the canula, in colour reiem- 
bling red port wine, or rather grumous blood. The 
.Angularity of this did not however alter our mea- 
fures. Two gallons of it were immediately drawn 
off, and half that quantity of claret and Briffol wa- 
ter injedted in its Head. This we purpofed to have 
repeated the next day, and as the circumftances of 
the patient would admit ; and to continue daily, till 
the whole contents fhould be gradually difcharged ; 
fearing that a total difcharge in the ordinary way would 
have brought on a fyncope. But when we attended 
her again on the day following, not one drop of any 
fluid came thro’ the canula ; and a fecond and a 
third punbture was attended with no better fuccefs. 
Soon after this, the whole abdomen became painful 
and diftended, frequent rigors came on, and a de- 
lirium, in about twelve hours, carried her off. Upon 
opening the body the day following, not one drop 
of any fluid was found in the cavity of the abdomen ; 
an enormous cyftis, which might have contained, 
when, full, about fix gallons, having completely filled 
the whole extent of it. There were likewife attached 
to the coats of it five large bodies of fungous flefli, 
the leafl; of them bigger than a man’s fift. Each of 
thefe, when cut open, appeared to be divided into 
cells, full of white glutinous pus. This extraordinary 
mafs adhered only to the fund of the uterus, and to- 
gether with it, the fungous fubftances, and vagina, 
when taken out, intirely covered a middle fized pillar 
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