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the exit of the putrid contents. The 3d night after 
the operation, (he turned delirious ; this fymptom, 
with an increafed fever and exceffive cough, afforded 
little or no hopes of a recovery, the more efpecially, 
as the difcharge was now turned exceflively thin, of a 
dufky colour and very foetid : for thefe reafons, I 
dreffed her twice a day, throwing in large quantities 
of a warm injection, compofed of adecodt. ficuum, and 
rad. alth. wherein was diffolved half, capiv. to which 
was added, when the fever abated, fome calomel ppt. 
In the mean time medicines internally, to allay her 
fever and cough, were not negledted ; and fhe after- 
wards took daily, as her ftomach and other fymptoms 
would admit, a light infufion of cort. peruv. 
By thefe means ftridtly followed, about the 21ft 
day from that of the incifion, a laudable pus was 
obtained; but on the 23d, a thin fanious difcharge in 
great quantities burft out, worfe than the former, and 
extremely foetid. 
Towards the end of the month, it began once more 
to affume a benign afpedt, but broke out a 3d and 4th 
time, on the 1 ft and 15th of September, every time 
the difcharge growing more and more acrid, fo as to 
excoriate and inflame the external parts ; notwith- 
ffanding thefe threatnings, by a clofe perfeverance in 
the forementioned method, at the end of ten weeks, 
a callous cicatrix was obtained upon the external 
wound, and the recovery compleated foon after by 
the ufe of a few alterative mercurial pills. 
The woman is flill alive, now (1766) in London, 
and enjoys a middling date of health ; only has been 
liable to complaints of gripes and indigeftion, every 
three, 
