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 had been wanting to set forth the Place and Nature of the Wound, I judged it to be some slight Matter which required no Haste; thus, I own, my Promise slipt my Remembrance, and the sooner, as my Man never so much as once, after his first Information, reminded me of it. In the mean Time Giovanni's Wound grew extremely painful, and brought a high Fever upon her, which was also accompanied with a Difficulty of Respiration, occasioned by an Accretion of the Pus, or Humours about her Breast; from such a Conjunction of Symptoms, her Recovery was apprehended to be doubtful; in this Extremity, a leathern Contrivance, of a cilindrical [sic] Figure, which was fastened below the Abdomen, and had been the chief Instrument of her detestable sture,