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left groin, which was cured bv being 

 brought to luppuration, and opened ; af- 

 ter which he married, had feveral chil- 

 dren, and neither he nor his wife had 

 any fymptom ot the venereal difoider. 



Some time in lummer 1759, he recei- 

 ved a blow in the left groin, with the end 

 of a pick-ax ; and fbon after perceived a, 

 fwelling in that part, which proved to be 

 a rupture. About Michaelnias it came 

 down, which he at firft negleCling, it in- 

 flamed fo violently, an^i put him to fo 

 much pain, that he fent for Mr Arnaud 

 the furgeon ; who, after bleeding him, and 

 ordering him a clyfter, findmg it impoffi- 

 ble to reduce the rupture, performed the 

 operation for the bubonocele. In the her- 

 nial fac, he found part of the fmali guts 

 ;and omentum greatly inflamed, and fo 

 black, that he was afraid a mortification 

 had already begun; however, he redu- 

 ced them both, after having cut away 

 part of the omentum. 



After this, the cure went on extreme^ 

 }y well without any accident j the patient 

 was blooded a fecpnd tim^, fome days 



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