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a?2us into the reBum, to prevent the liquor's 

 recoihng, in hope that the Hquor would car- 

 ry the inverted gut before it, to caufe its 

 return to the natural fituation. This opera- 

 tion being repeated feveral times in vain, the 

 procidentia always returning with the tetief- 

 7nus^ a very long probe of whale-bone was 

 made, a fponge was faftened round the 

 probe, this was wet in oil, the probe was in- 

 troduced into the orifice, which, I faid, re- 

 fembled an os tincce^ the fides of which reft- 

 ed on the fpunge ; and with this the inte- 

 ftine was puflied a great way up into the bo- 

 dy in the dired:ion of the reclum, but with- 

 out fuccefs. Several attempts of the fame 

 kind failing, we defpaired of a cure ; and 

 the child, fometime after, being attacked with 

 fevere vomiting and perpetual tenefmits^ died 

 in few days. 



Mr. Drummo?id, who opened the body, 

 told me, that the inverfion began a little below 

 the upper part of the figmoid flexure of the 

 colon J and that the mefcolon was torn away 

 from the inverted part. 



When a doubled part of an inteftine is 

 extended into the qavity of this alimentary 



canal, 



