III. Remarks, taken upon dissecting the body of A. M. a maid of about thirty years of age, who dyed of an ascites, the first of August, 1689

To prevent the too impetuous eruption of the contained liquor (in case incision had been presently made) we made a persoration of the abdomen, in the most prominent part, as the body lay along, by a paracentesis, extracting through a small canula, to the quantity of three gallons