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believe any will be fo hardy as to advife 
the amputation of the affected part of the - 
gut. 
‘Tis furprifing how the people in the 
preceeding hiftories lived fo long as they 
did, with fuch large doublings of the in- 
teftine, and its mefentery preffed together 
within another piece of inteftine, when 
the common inflammation of the inteftine 
often kills foon thofe it attacks; of which 
I could give numerous examples, but 
fhall relate only one. A Gentleman of 
weak nerves, and fubje& to flatus and pain 
in his ftomach, was feized with a cholic- 
pain about ten o’clock at night, for which 
he fwallowed a fmall quantity of an ar. 
dent fpirit. At three in the morning, 
twelve or fourteen ounces of blood Were 
let from a vein in his arm, and a laxative 
clyfter was injected, and operated well. 
At eleven that forenoon, I firft faw him, 
when his friends thought him much bet- 
ter, being free of pain; but, as his belly 
_ Was greatly fwelled and very tenfe, his 
pulfe quick,. fmall, and Antermitting, his 
eyes 
