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faid, refembled an os tince, the fides of 
which refted on the {punge; and with 
this the inteftine was pufhed a great way 
up into the body in the direction of the 
rectum, but without fuccefs. Several at- 
tempts of the fame kind failing, we de- 
fpaired of a cure; and the child, fome 
time after, being attacked with fevere vo- 
miting and perpetual tene/mus, died ina 
few days. 
Mr Drummond, who opened the body, 
told me, that the inverfion began a little 
below the upper part of the figmoid flex- 
ure of the colon ; and that the mefocolon 
Was torn away from the inverted part. .’ 
WHEN a doubled part of an inteftine 
is extended into the cavity of this alimen- 
tary canal, without appearing externally 
at the auus, it is called intufu/ceptio, which, 
I am perfuaded, is a much more frequent 
difeafe than is generally thought. Ihave 
feen feveral whom I judged to have died 
by it, and fhall now relate the cafes of 
four people whofe bodies were examined 
after death, 
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