402 ESSAYS anp OBSERVATIONS 
| ART. XXVIII. 
A Fiflory of a genuine Volvulus of the In- 
tefliness by ALEXANDER Monro, juni- 
or, M. D. and Profeffor of Anatomy *. 
A N old man complained of a colic, 
which was neglected more than 
two days; when Mr William Wood Sur- 
geon in Fdinburgh being called, found 
him in the agonies of death, Next day 
I obtained leave to open his abdomen, in 
prefence of feveral ftudents of phyfic. 
We faw fourteen inches long of the zte- 
fiinum ilium hanging in a finus down in 
the pelvis, all black and mortified, occa- 
fioned by a ftrangulation at the upper 
part of the two pieces of the cium which 
formed the finus. The firm ftri@ture there 
was made by the appendix vermiformis, 
the body of which lay behind the con- 
ftricted parts of the ifium, while the end 
of 
* February 6. 1755. 
