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der had abated ; for, from the firfl time 

 I faw him, which was fome months be- 

 fore his death, what loofe flools he had 

 feemed rather to proceed from weak re- 

 laxed inteftines, and the abforption of 

 matter from the abfccfs in the liver, than 

 from the remains of the original difor- 

 der, the dyfentery ; for there appeared to 

 be only liquid foeces without any mix- 

 ture of blood or mucus. 



In one patient who died of the dyfen- 

 tery, befides the black fpots and erofions 

 which were on the inlide of the colon 

 and recSlum, we found a fmall abfcefs, 

 which contained about two ounces of 

 pus, at a place where the colon adhered to 

 the peritoneum on the left fide, below 

 the kidney j and, when this abfcefs was 

 opened, and the colon preffed, though 

 very gently, near this part, the fceccs 

 came through the wound into the cavity 

 .of the abdomen. 



1 could obferve no black fpots or ero- 

 fions of the villous coat any where in the 

 fmall guts of any of the bodies 1 faw q- 

 pened ; though here and there there were 

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