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finewy parts of which, when boil'd, the fa- 

 mily frequently took for food. 



Hiji. 2. A man who had been long tor- 

 tured with a painful hard fwelling in his 

 belly a little above the right groin, which 

 frequently caufed vomiting and diarrhoea^ 

 tho' at other times he was very coftive, afk- 

 ed my advice, when he was very weak and 

 emaciated. The feat of this tumor ^ the kind 

 of feel it had thro' the containing parts, and 

 its tumbling, as the patient faid, from one 

 place to another, when he changed poftures^ 

 made me fufped a concretion to be lodged in 

 the great fac of the colon. 



In hope to pufh it forwards in the colon^ \ 

 caufed his great guts to be filled with whey 

 injected by the anm^ and then direfled him- 

 felf and affiftants to prefs repeatedly the tu- 

 mor upwards. This manceuvre being feveral 

 times renewed without fuccefs, I prefcribed 

 a brifk purgative, and ordered the injedions 

 with the prefibre to be repeated as foon as 

 the cathartic began to operate. But this 

 and feveral other fuch operations failing, my 

 patient died. 



Having obtained leave to examine his 

 body, my conjecture proved to be right j for 



