^62. ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



large portion of inteftine, there were feveral 

 fhreds and fmaller pieces paffed by the patient -, 

 notwithftanding which, Mr. Mtiir faw after- 

 wards, among the hoy^s faeces, fkins of po- 

 tatoes which he had eat after thefe parts 

 of the inteftine cartie away, fo that they had 

 not made any difcontinuity in the ahmentary 

 canal. The fymptoms continuing, the boy 

 died in fix weeks. 



Mr. Muir opened the body of his patient, 

 in prefence of feveral Gentlemen of the fa- 

 culty, who faw what I am now to defcribe, 

 with the affiftance of a figure, which I cau- 

 fed to be taken of the dried preparation of the 

 inteftine fent me. 



The folds of the inteftines and omentum 

 were all glued together by a fatty curdy 

 matter. Within four inches of the valve 

 of the colon, the ilium A B C, Fig. i. Tab. 

 VII. formed into the ufual curve by the me- 

 fentery D, fuddenly rofe perpendicularly at E, 

 where it was much contrafted and had the 

 appearance of a cicatrice. When the inte- 

 ftine was opened, this contraded part of it 

 was found much thicker and harder than it 

 was any where elfe, efpecially on one fide, 



where 



