368 ESSAYS and OBSERVATIONS 



Art. XXVIII. 



A Hijiory of a genuine Volvulus of the In- 

 tefiines \ by Alexander Monro junior, 

 M. D. and Profejfor of Anatomy *. 



AN old man complained of a colic, which 

 was negledied more than two days ; 

 when Mr. William Wood Surgeon in Edin- 

 burgh being called, foiind him in the ago- 

 nies of death. Next day I obtained leave to 

 open his abdomen:^ in prefence of feveral 

 ftudents of phyfic. We faw fourteen inches 

 long of the intefiinum ilium hanging in 2.finm 

 down in the pelvis, all black and mortified, 

 occafioned by a ftrangulation at the upper 

 part of the two pieces of the ilium which 

 formed ih^finus. The firm ftridure there 

 was made by the appendix vermiformis, the 

 body of which lay behind the conftrided 

 parts of the ilium, while the end of it paf- 

 fing over and before them, had funk back 

 again into a /)//c^ of the mefentery, from 

 which, with great difficulty, I could draw 



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• February 6. 1755. 



