$ 6 Mr. latham’s Account of an 
In a narrative of this kind it may be expected, that a 
detail of the medicines fbe took during her illnefs might 
be noted ; but as I chiefly a< 5 ted in my furgical capacity, 
and as fhe was after this time, till the firft operation, for 
the moft part in London, under the care of phyficians of 
the firft eminence, it is out of my power to give fuch an 
account; fuffice it then to fay, that fhe was obliged to 
fubmit to the operation of the paracentefis the 27 th of 
June, 1774. The quantity I then took off was only 
twelve pints, fomewhat foetid, but not very dark co- 
loured, nor was it ever after the leaft offenfive. The ope- 
ration was repeated in fix weeks, when twenty-nine pints 
were taken off; after that time once in four weeks to 
the end of the year. During the whole of the year 
1 7 7 5 I tapped her once in a fortnight more or lefs ; and 
in the year 1776 fhe for the moft part underwent the ope- 
ration every eight or nine days, the intervals gradually 
fhortening, till by the end of the year fhe could go no 
longer than a week between, which continued to the 
day of her death, which happened May 14, 1778, being 
then not quite twenty-three years of age. About a week 
before that time, fire was troubled with inceffant vomit- 
ings, which nothing would relieve ; but was better a few 
hours before her death, and went off pretty eafy. 
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