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of the anus near to each other, while fome 
liquid excrement was pafled. After the 
reduétion was again made, I put my fin- 
ger, which is long, up the reéfum, pushing 
the orifice of the inverted gut on the point 
of it, and then found the orifice of the ins 
verted gut refembling the feel of the os 
tince of an unimpregnated womb refting 
on it, which I could throw up fome way 
further with a fudden jirk of the laft 
joint of the finger, but without being a- 
ble to invert it. We then caufed a large 
quantity of milk and water to be injected 
with force, while the two fides of the anus 
were prefied firmly on the pipe of the fy- 
ringe introduced by the anus into the 
redum, to prevent the liquor’s recoiling, 
in hope that the liquor would carry the 
inverted gut before it, to caufe its return 
to the natural fituation. This operation 
being repeated feveral times in vain, the 
procidentia always returning with. the ¢e- 
nefinus, a very long probe of whale-bone 
was made, a fponge was faftened round 
the probe, this was wet in oil, the probe 
was introduced into the orifice, which, I 
) faid, 
