Paper, 'An anatomical account of some remarkable things found on the dissection of a woman who dyed of the dropsy after the paracentese [paracentesis] was performed with a small reflexion on the cause of the dropsy' by Charles Preston Preston describes the autopsy of a woman who had died of dropsy [oedema]. The woman's organs were found to be inflamed and ulcerated and Preston debates whether the cause of death was the disease or the paracentesis [procedure to remove fluid from the abdomen through a needle]. Subject: Medicine Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An anatomical account of some remarkable things, found on the dissection of a woman, who dyed of the dropsie, after the paracentesis was performed, with a small reflection on the causes of the dropsie'. Read to the Royal Society on 10 July 1695. 1695