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As in the fecond inflance above-mentioned, tar- 
water had been recommended by fome gentlemen of 
the profeflion, then prefent, inftead of Briflol- water, 
I, fome time after the death of the patient, injected 
a pint of it warm into the belly of a fmall cur, to 
fee how far the effect of it differed from that of cla- 
ret and Briftol water. The dog immediately fell 
into great agonies, and in about two hours died. 
The abdomen being opened, all the inteftines were 
found greatly inflamed. I then tried claret and Bri- 
ffcol water, alfo port wine and fountain water, on 
other dogs, after the fame manner. Each of thefe 
injections was retained with little or no inconvenience, 
except intoxications : and in forty-eight hours the 
dogs became well again, the injection being intirely 
abforbed. It occurred to me, in making thefe ex- 
periments (wherein the power of abforption feemed 
very conliderable) how far it might anfwer in pre- 
venting a fyncope, or for other purpofes, that a fit 
quantity of a properly adapted injection be left un- 
difcharged, after tapping, which might be e.ther ab- 
forbed, or drawn off at proper intervals, as the 
ftrength of the patient may admit. I am, with 
great refpeft, 
S I R, 
Truro ,Jan. 21, Your molt humble Servant, 
174 . 4 - 
Chr. Warrick, 
LXVIL 
