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in the ftomach are not to be confidered as defperate, even 
though they cannot be induced to heal. 
Tue relations of fimilar cafes which are to be met with, 
though not of a modern date, are in authors of approved 
veracity ; but indeed, had they been doubtful, the one which 
I now prefent to the Academy, and which is accompanied by 
the parts preferved, afcertains the poflibility and fupports their 
affertions. Schenkius, in his Obferv. Med. rarior. gives two 
fuch cafes; and we are told in the fourth volume of the 
“ Memoirs of the Academy of Surgery,” that * Monfieur 
Foubert, a French furgeon of eminence, preferved in his 
mufeum the f{tomach of a man who died in the Hotel 
Dieu at Orleans, while he was a pupil there, which had 
an opening externally from a wound, and into which the per- 
fon, while alive, ufed frequently to injeét different aliments, 
and digefted them as well as thofe taken by the mouth.— 
And Monfieur Covillard, a celebrated furgeon at Montelimard, 
in his “ Obfervations Jatro-Chirurgiques,” tells us, + “ Qu’il 
“ fut prié de voir un foldat (en 1637) qui lui raconta avoir 
“ reca une moufquetade en la partie fupérieure et latérale de 
l’épigaftre, laquelle pénétra fort avant dans le corps, lui caufa 
des étranges fymptomes, étant dans des perpétuelles pamoi- 
fons, fans pouvoir étre fortifié dans fes foibleffes, d’autant 
qu’d mefure qu'il avaloit du bouillon, 11 fortoit par la playe. 
—Il eft vrai qu’aprés que les Chirurgiens lui eurent donné 
le moyen de retenir les alimens par l’application’ des tentes, 
“ i] 
* Mem. de L’Academie Royale de Chirurgie, tom. IV. page 124. 
+ Obferv. xli. 
