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matter, after which the bowels were confined for ihr^ days, 

 when she was taken with diarrhoea, an acute pain in the 

 bowels, cold sweats, pulse variable, vomiting of feculent 

 matter ; but the hiccup was not very distressing : — these 

 symptoms continued for nine da\'S, being sixteen from the 

 attack, when she sunk under the disease. 



The medicines given during this illness were, opium, 

 calomel, extract, colocynth. cum calomel, enema communis, 

 and the enema cum nicotiana. She could not be prevailed 

 on to submit to the operation. 



On dissection, the intestines were distended with flatus, 

 the colon was much enlarged and inflamed, part of the syg- 

 moid flexion was contained in the hernial sac, but not the 

 whole circumference of the intestine, which left thecdnal per- 

 vious. The adhesions were firm around the mouth of the sac, 

 from which the intestine could not be separajled, and the coats 

 were much thickened'by inflammation which approached to 

 gangrene. The omentum was much inflamed and adhered to 

 the hernial sac ; and that part of the omentum within the 

 sac was much enlarged and more firm, which, together 

 with the adhesions, had rendered this an irreducible hernia, 



John Taunton, 



Surgeon to the City and Finsbury 

 Grevllle-street, Hatton-garden, Dispensaries, Lecturer on Ana« 



February 23, 1808. • tomy, Surgery, Physiology, &c. 



XX. Proceedings of Learned Societies , 



ROYAX SOCIETV. 



On the 5th of February, a letter from Mr. Knight, to the 

 president, was read, on the inconvertibility of the bark of 

 trees into the alburnum. The author, as usual, detailed 

 the effects of a great many experiments made to confirm 

 this opinion, which he announced in the conclusion of a 

 letter read before the Society last season, (see Philosophical 

 Magazine, No. 109, vol. xxviii. p. 43.) One of the most 

 obvious reasons assigned for the truth of this opinion was, 

 that many trees having barks very dissimilar, have wood 

 very similar; and that, had the alburnum been formed «f the 

 bark, the wood must consequently have been as different as 

 2 the 



