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Received Odto'oer 24, 1766. 
XXXVIII. An Account of a fuccefsful 0 pe- 
tition for the Hydrops Pe&oris , by William 
Moreland, Surgeon at Greenwich ; com- 
municated by W. Watfon, M. D. F. R. S. 
Read Dec 
1766 
•"A 
S very few inftances are to be met 
with in medical or chirurgical 
writers, of the fuccefsful opening of the thorax in the 
dropfy of the bread:; the following perfon’s cafe, who 
was preferved by it in the mod imminent danger of 
death, may encourage others under dmilar circum- 
dances to perform the operation, which has hitherto 
been very rarely attempted. 
Anne Harmfworth of Crooms Hill, Greenwich, of 
a thin, bedtic habit of body, and fubjedt to deduxions 
cn the bread, about the latter end of the year 1760, 
complained of a fmart, fhooting pain in her right dde, 
which fomewhat affedted her bread. Her evacuations 
by dool and urine were by no means dedcient, nor 
was there any remarkable appearance on the part 
affedted. A blider was applied, and oily medicines 
given, which relieved her in a few days, yet not fo 
intirely but that die had returns of the pain at different 
times, though not fufficient to make her apply for 
advice, till November 1762, when die was feized 
with a much greater degree of the fame kind of pain, 
attended with difficulty of refpiration, a fenfe of weight 
on 
