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that therefore Hie was always obliged to keep up her 
knees, more or lefs, towards her bread:, by which means 
fhe had, in fome degree, loft the power of extending her 
limbs. 
I ordered her to take half a drachm of powdered 
bark in a little red port wine every four hours ; and, as 
matter had already formed within the tumor, I defired 
that a maturating poultice might be applied every night 
and morning ; for I imagined that nature, without fuch 
afliftance, could never bring the abfcefs to a head in her 
weak condition. 
July i oth, the matter pointing at the upper end of 
the tumour very near the os ilium , I made a large open- 
ing, from which was difcharged an amazing quantity of 
pus ; but, as the tenlion Was ftill great, I applied a linfeed 
poultice over the common dreffings : neverthelefs, in a 
few days a fecbnd, abfcefs began to form towards the ver- 
tebra of the loins, between the falfe ribs and the as ilium y 
which was rapid in its progrefs, for it was brought to 
maturation, and opened on the 26th. 
On the 31ft I was alarmed with a gangrenous ap- 
pearance of the whole integuments of the abdomen : for 
this fhe took one drachm of powdered bark in red-port 
every three hours ; but, as vefications and every fym- 
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