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new one. The opening was about the third of an inch in 
diameter. The plug he ufed was generally cotton wick twifted 
hard,—-—It was twenty-feven years from the time he re- 
ceived the injury to that in which I faw him firft (about 
fourteen months ago); he had then attained his fixty-fifth 
year, and was, to all appearance, a healthy man, regular in 
his bowels and all his fecretions. He had been extremely 
drunken and diffipated, and was, even at that time, frequently 
intoxicated with every kind of fermented liquor; yet he never 
complained of any inconvenience from it, but returned the 
next day to occupation or debauch with vivacity and with 
ftrength. He had procured -a livelihood for a few years be- 
fore I met with him by teaching French in this city, being 
too old for his former occupation.—I think it neceffary to 
add, that in a voyage fubfequent to that in which he re- 
ceived the wound, he was feverely afflicted with fcurvy, in 
common with feveral others in the fhip, and in confequence 
of that difeafe loft every tooth in his head. All the alviolar 
procefles were abforbed, notwithftanding which he contrived 
to break his food, his gums being very much hardened, and 
eat with*confiderable appetite and a good digeftion. 
On removing the plug, after taking milk, a part ‘of it, 
quite pure, efcaped through the opening; and he has told me 
that when his ftomach was empty of meat, and that he has 
taken the plug out, a whitifh fluid adhered to it that tafted 
fweet. He never felt any pain in the opening, nor inconve- 
nience from any particular food. 
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