i2o ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



copper- pi ate made from it, when he 

 was about taking a degree at Leyden. 

 And in one woman, who died likewifc 

 in St George's hofpital, the villous coat 

 was entirely abraded from the infide of 

 the recflum. After I had kept this gut 

 for fome days, and fliewed it to feveral 

 friends, I gave it to Dr Hunter, who flill 

 preferves it among his anatomical pre- 

 parations. 



In a foldier who died of an old dyfen- 

 tery, which he had contraded five years 

 before in the Eaft Indies, together with 

 anabfcefs of his liver, there were but few 

 black fpots on the infide of the inteftines ; 

 though there was a number of erofions 

 of the villous coat, particularly in the 

 ■upper part of the colon, which appeared 

 exadlly fimilar to thofe which are com- 

 monly to be obferved in the middle of 

 the black or livid fpots. I conjedlured 

 that there had been originally black fpots 

 at thefe parts ; but that the blood, or o- 

 ther extravafated liquors, had been abfor- 

 bed when the malignancy of the difor- 



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