Mr. fynney’s Account , &c. 
459 
TO DR. PERCIVAL. 
q T n I^eekf 
s 1 March io t 177 7. 
UPON May 16, 1775, being defired to vifit ann 
davenport, a native of this town, I beheld a truly rai- 
ferable object, with the mo ft cadaverous countenance I 
had ever feen, emaciated to the laft degree by a hectic 
fever, and profufe colliquative fweats. She had a con- 
tinual thirft, her appetite was totally gone, and ftie was 
ahVays in the extremes of being too loofe or too bound. 
Her mother informed me, that fhe was then in her 
twenty-firft year; and that ihe had been a ftrong and 
fprightly child from her birth, until fhe was about five 
■years of age, from which time fhe had been a ftranger to 
health, and every now and then had been feized with 
excruciating fits of the colic, efpecially whenever fhe 
ate or drank any thing the leaft acid. 
The young woman told me, that about a year ago 
fire had firft perceived a fwelling on the right fide of 
her belly, juft above the groin; which, if at any time 
fhe attempted to ftretch out her thigh, .gave her inex- 
preflible pain, as if fomething {tabbed her in that part: 
O o 0 2, that 
