368 ESSAYS anv OBSERVATIONS 
me the liberty of examining the body, my, 
coubts and fcruples were foon fatisfied. 
I firft locked the ftate of the abdomen,’ 
where the following appearances were 
very obvious. The omentum fallen.down, 
ereatly ftretched, and fo tenfe, that one 
fhould have imagined it would havebroke, 
‘The ftomach much diftended with air, 
the great curvature of it much lower 
down than its natural fituation ; the great 
arch of the co/on quite out of its place, and _ 
lying as low as the midd’z of the {mall 
guts; the jejunum and z/eum confiderably 
inflamed and much diftended with air, 
and the mefenteric veflels much more tur- 
gid than ufual. Thefe were the principal 
things to be obferved in the abdomen. 
Upon making an incifion through the te- 
guments of the /crotum, (in the fame di- 
rection as is ordered in the operation for 
the bubonocele) I foon difcovered the her- 
nial fac, which was very thin, tenfe, and 
rigid; and, upon laying the fac open, 
there was nothing to be found but the 
omentum, which was compleatly mortified 
as high as the ring of the mufcle. Up- 
on 
