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the left loin, with the fame appearance as de- 



fcribed in the former hiftory. 



3. A girl feven year old, after eating a 



carrot and fome curren-berries, had a colic 

 which continued with a diftended belly, vo- 

 miting, and paffing \\tt\ejceces, from July 

 till the middle of December, notwithftand- 

 ing various medicines were given. 



Mr. Malcolm Surgeon in Dalkeith, whofe 

 patient fhe was, being allowed to open her 

 corpfe, cut out the affeded part of the in- 

 teftine, and fent it to me. The end of the 

 ilium, valvula Tulpii, caput coli, and appen- 

 dix vermiformis, were raifed twelve inches 

 within the colon, to which they had a flight 

 adheiion. The outer furface of the con- 

 tained inteftines was dark-coloured, and very 

 unequal. The orifice of the prolapfed part 

 was not at its end, but at one fide an inch 

 and a half from the end, with a loft flexible 

 prominence at each fide of the aperture, 

 which I judge to have been Tulpiuss valve. 

 The doubled parts were fo grown together, 

 that I could not diftinguifh one from the o- 

 ther. The pafTage within them was fo fmall 

 and crooked, that I could not pufh a probe 



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