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4. Dr Cullen, profeffor of medicine in 
the univerfity of Glafgow, communicated 
the following cafe to me. 
A boy about twelve years of ape coms 
plained of wandering colic-pains, which 
he imputed to blows received on his belly 
from fome of his companions. Thefe 
pains returned frequently with diarrhea, 
and fometimes bloody ftools; for near a 
year, when his parents confulted Mr 
James Muir furgeon in Glafgow about 
him. The boy was then much emacia- 
ted, had a quick pulfe, and was fo weak 
as to be confined to his bed. Two weeks 
after this, a livid-membranous fubftance, 
paffed by the boy at ftool, was brought to 
Mr_ Muir; who, obferving it to be tubu~ 
® lar, tied one end of it, and blowing ; into 
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- which | caufed to bé drawn from the ori- 
the other, diftended it into fuch a con= 
voluted tube thirteen inches long, as you 
fee reprefented A BC, Fig. 1. Fab. VII. 
ginal which was fent me. Ass it has the 
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_ mefentery D connected to all its concave. 
fide, it appears to have been an entire 
_ pitce of gut, and not the villous coat on- 
ly, 
