PHYSICAL anv LITERARY. 365 
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‘Art. XXII 
A Hernia from the Omentum falling down 
" Gnto the Scrotum ; by TH omas LIvINnG- 
' STON, Mz. D. Phyfician at Aberdeen *, 
“fA Young man, aged about 28, of a very 
% thin habit of body, and naturally of 
a healthy conftitution, was feized with a 
pain and uneafinefs about the region of 
_ the ftomach; for which complaints (with- 
_ out any regular advice) he took a vomit, 
* which operated in the ufual manner, but 
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without alleviating his former uneafinefs. 
In the evening of that day, about fix hours 
. after the operation of the vomit, he was 
- feized with fharp pains over all his belly, 
_ for which, by the advice of a phyfician, 
he was ordered an emollient clyfter, and 
an anodyne at bed-time. The cly{ter-o- 
__ perated gently, and he paffed the night - 
pretty free of pain, till towards morning 
: that the pain returned more violent than 
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® February 5, 1755. ' 
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