Paper, 'Remarks taken upon disecting [dissecting] the body of A M a maid of about 30 years of age who dyed of an ascites' by Daniel Turner This paper details the dissection of a woman who had died from an ascites. Nearly 20 gallons of water were drained from her stomach. The dissection was witnessed by James Wasse and Daniel Turner. Subject: Medicine Published in Philosophical Transactions as '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'. Read to the Royal Society on 7 February 1694. 1 August 1689