390 ESSAYS anp OBSERVATIONS - 
T have faid, that this difeafe, the proci- 
dentia ani, is feldom fatal; and the reduc- 
tion of the prolapfed part of the inteftine 
into the body is generally regarded as a 
cure of it; but that this is not true, when 
the doubling of the inteftine is high up, 
will appear from the following hiftory. 
A large-fized, ftrong, healthy boy, a year 
and a half old, after a diarrhea of fome 
days, with tene/mus, was obferved to have 
a procidentia ani, which was treated two 
days by the women who attended him ; 
after which Mr Adam Drummond, Sur- 
geon in this place, was called to his af- 
fiftance. He reduced the procidentia fre- 
quently; but it foon returned, which 
made him defire I fhould be confulted. 
THE inverted inteftine ftood out four 
inches from the anus, without being much 
fwelled or of a deep red colour, and the 
child feemed to have no other difeafe. 
Mr Drummond moft eafily introduced all 
the tumor into the body ; but foon after 
it was puthed out again, upon the child’s 
having a defire to ftool, notwithftanding 
_a fervant’s keeping a finger on each fide 
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