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her for a fhort time, occafioned more by the fudden 
removal of the preffure from the lungs, than any 
other inconvenience from the operation, the lofs of 
blood being very inconliderable. 
From this time to the next morning, the urine was 
fecreted and difcharged to the quantity of three pints 
more than (lie had drank. On the firfl drefiing, the 
next day, there iffued about a fpoonfull of ferum, but 
none afterwards : and though fhe remained weak and 
faint for feveral days, yet fhe had no other inconveni- 
ence, from the time of the operation to that of the 
cicatrization of the wound, which was compleated in 
lefs than a month; the wound having been dreffed 
fuperficially the whole time. 
It may be remarked, that, though, at the time of 
the operation, fhe was two months gone with child, 
fhe neverthelefs compleated her pregnancy, and is 
now in as good a date as die had enjoyed for many 
years before. 
XXXIX. A Letter 
