396 ESSAYS anp OBSERVATIONS 
ly. Befides this large portion of inteftine, 
there were feveral threds and fmaller pie- 
ces paffed by the patient ; notwithftand- 
ing which, Mr Muir faw afterwards, a= 
mong the boy’s feces, {kins of potatoes 
which he had eat after thefe parts of the | 
inteitine came away, fo that they had 
not made any difcontinuity in the ali- 
mentary canal. The fymptoms continu- 
ing, the boy died in fix weeks. 
Mr Muir opened the body of his pa- 
tient, in prefence of feveral gentlemen of 
the faculty, who faw what | am now to 
defcribe, with the afliftance of a figure, 
which I caufed to be taken of the dried 
preparation of the inte({tine fent me. 
Tue folds of the inteftines and omen- 
tum were all glued together by a fatty cur- 
dy matter. Within four inches of the 
valve of the colov, the ilium ABC, Fig. 2, 
Tab. Vil. formed into the ufual curve by 
the mefentery D fuddenly rofe perpendi- 
cularly at E, where it was much contract- 
~ed and had the appearance of a cicatrice. 
When the inteftine was opened, this con- 
tracted part of it was found much thick- 
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