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in fmall quantities only at a time, and feemed to empty 
the bladder but very little ; for a tumor, which for many 
days had been perceptible on the left fide, and which 
evidently contained a fluid, afforded the ufual feel of a 
diftended bladder. 
He now buffered very violent pains all over the abdo- 
men, but particularly about the region of the pubis, bo 
that he could not bear the prefliire ufually made for 
borne time paft to force off his urine; and, as the catheter 
could not enter the bladder, and the introduction of the 
bougie was of very little fervice, his urine now began to 
dribble away involuntarily. 
His fever, at intervals, was very confiderable, his 
ftrength failed him very faff, and he received no benefit 
from any medicines but opiates. In this molt deplorable 
condition he languifhed till the beginning of QCtober, 
when the violence of his pains began to remit, and he 
gradually drooped into a fiat© of inbenfibility till the 
tenth of October, when he died. 
DISSECTION. 
The integuments of the abdomen felt harfh and dry, 
like a piece of parchment. The veins were much en- 
larged, and their branches could be traced all over its 
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