PHYSICAL AND LITERARY 



canal, without appearing externally at the 

 a7ius, it is called intujufceptio, which, I am 

 perfuaded, is a much more frequent dif- 

 eafe than is generally thought. I have (ten 

 feveral whom I judged to have died by it, 

 and (hall now relate the cafes of four people 

 whofe bodies were examined after death. 



1. A middle aged woman, during fixteen 

 months before, her death, fuffered greatly 

 from colic-pains, diftenfion of her belly, 

 vomiting, and tenefmus. In the latter part 

 of her life, when I firft faw her, fhe had ho 

 ceifation from pain, except by the force of 

 opium. 



In the great arch of the colon was a doubled 

 part of that gut, feven inches long. The 

 containing inteftine had a very flight adhe- 

 fion to the inverted doubled part contiguous 

 to it. The doubled part was of a dark red 

 colour, but not very hard. The pafTage for 

 the Jceces thro* it was very narrow, not al- 

 lowing a finger pufhed with force to pafs. 



2. A woman about fifty years of age lived 

 two years with fuch fymptoms as were nar- 

 rated in the preceeding cafe. We found a 

 doubled part of the colon four inches long in 



the 



