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ACCOUNT of a FISTULOUS OPENING iz the STOMACH. 
By GEORGE BURROWES, M.D. M. R.L.A. 
W ovunns of the. ftomach, from its fituation and the extent Read Jin. 7). 
it occupies in the abdomen, have been at all times fo free '7°” 
quent, that their fatal tendencies are known to. every perfon. 
at all acquainted with the hiftory of furgery.. Several methods 
of leffening the danger of thofe wounds, or preventing their 
ill confequences, have been practifed at different times with 
various fuccefs. The mode of uniting by /uture the divided 
part has been fuccefsfully employed in the * brute creation as: 
well as the human ; and there are a few cafes in the annals of fur- 
gery of wounds.in the ftomach remaining unclofed externally for 
years without any wnremediable inconvenience. Having lately had: 
an opportunity of feeing a man who had been for many years: 
in this predicament, and of examining the parts after death 
by diffection, I think it incumbent on me to lay before the Aca- 
demy fome account of fo extraordinary a cafe; not merely as- 
a matter of curiofity, but as an additional proof that wounds. 
Moi EV. Aa in: 
* Philofoph, Tranfaét. 
