380 ESSAYS ann OBSERVATIONS 
Tue fecond in fize and the fmalleft 
are cut through near to the middle, 
where there is a fmall flat bone, that 
probably has been the nuclens about which 
thefe balls were formed, though they are 
not of the fame fhape. r 
WE were informed by the parents, that 
they had often chid their fon for fwallow- 
ing the {mall bones of fheep and lambs 
feet, the finewy parts of which, when 
boiled, the adie frequently ‘took for 
food. 
 ‘Hift. 2. A man who had been long — 
tortured with a painful hard {welling in 
his belly a little above the right groin, 
which frequently caufed | vomiting and 
diarrolea, though at other times he was 
very coftive, afked my advice, when he 
was very weak and emaciated. The feat 
of this tumor, the kind of feel it had 
through the containing parts, and its 
tumbling, as the patient faid, from one : 
place to another, when he changed po- . 
ftures, made me fufpe@ a concretion to 
be lodged in the great fac of the colons. 
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