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afraid of afFerting, that I had obferved 

 the villous coat of the colon and redlum 

 to be eroded, till I fhould again have an 

 opportunity of examining the bodies of 

 fome who died of this diforder, and was 

 by that convinced that I had committed 

 no miftakc. But, having fince that time 

 examined the bodies of feveral, I here 

 fend you an account of what I believe to 

 be the ftate of the inteftines of moft of 

 thofe who die of old true dyfenteries. 



Although, from the fymptoms in 

 the beginning of the dyfentery, the fto- 

 mach and fmall guts fhould feem to be 

 afFeded as well as the colon and redum 

 and are frequently found with figns of 

 inflammation in thofe who die in the a- 

 cute ftate of the diforder j yet, when it 

 runs out to any length, and becomes 

 what may be called chronic, where the 

 patient waftes daily by a conftant pur- 

 ging, the feat of the difeafe feems to be 

 principally confined to the great guts ; 

 and, after death, they are found to be 

 principally affeded. 



