IV. A method of conveying liquors into the abdomen during the operation of tapping; proposed by the Reverend Stephen Hales, D. D. and F. R. S. on occasion of the preceding paper; communicated in a letter to Cromwell Mortimer, M. D. Secr. R. S

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Sir, It occurred to me, on your reading, Thursday last, before the Society, the Case of the Woman at Truro in Cornwall , who was cured of a Dropsy, by injecting into the Abdomen Bristol Water and Cohore Wine, after having drawn off a good Quantity of the dropsical Lympha ; that, in case of further Trial, that, or any other Liquor, shall be found effectual to the Purpose, it might be more commodiously injected in the following Manner; viz .