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Received Feb. 24, 1 j66. 
XIII. A Hepatitis , with unfavourable Symp- 
toms , treated by Robert Smith, Surgeon at 
Edinburgh, now at Leicefter. 
Read April 2 4 >T\ AT R S Morton, aged 26, of a fpare 
JLvX habit and a fmall fize, in the fum- 
mer of the year 1750, frequently complained of a 
pain in her right fide. About the middle of July, the 
lame year, a violent vomiting and pain in her ftomach 
introduced an acute fever, accompanied with a con- 
ftant deep-feated pain in the right fide, under the 
coftte nothre, a little lower than where the ufual pleu- 
ritic fymptom in either fide is generally felt. 
Copious bleedings, to fixty ounces and upwards, 
with a veficatory on the affected part, and petftoral me- 
dicines internally, afforded fome temporal relief. 
July 27th, Upon the account of an intolerable pain 
at her ftomach, a very uncommon uneafinefs, and 
gripings in her belly, a medicine was exhibited, com- 
pol'ed of pulv. ftann. corralin. See. and the day follow- 
ing, fhe voided by ftool a large annular worm, 
about half an inch broad, in length fix yards and a 
half. 
Auguft 1 ft, This day, upon examination, was 
difeovered a confiderable tumor, fufpeefted, from its 
fituation, and previous fymptoms, to be formed in the 
anterior part of the liver, of an oblong figure, and 
extended 
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