Memoir upon living and fossil Elephants. 359 



nearly healed ; from this tiiue the cure went on gradually, 

 and was completed in about a week. 



In this hernia, the external swelling was but small, the sac 

 being situated between the two abdominal rint^s ; it receded 

 easily under the edge of the transversalis muscle by external 

 pressure, a circumstance not sufficiently explained in surgical 

 authors, nor known by surgeons in general. A fatal mis- 

 take of this kind came within my knowledge but a short 

 time since, in a patient who would willingly have submitted 

 to the operation, but a surgeon persisted in his capability 

 of reducing the hernia, because he found it to recede by ex- 

 ternal pressure : the patient died in a few days : dissection 

 proved the fallacy of his judgment. 



John Taunton-, 



Surgeon to the City and Finsbury 

 Dispensaries, Lecturer on Ana- 

 tomy, Surgery, Physiology, Jjc. 

 Greville-street, Hattop. -garden, 

 Sept. 21,1807. 



Subscriptions and donations for the City Truss Society 

 for affording relief to the ruptured poor, by supplying them 

 with trusses free of expense, are received by James Amos, 

 esq. Devonshire-square, Bishopsgate ; Mr. Alexander Max- 

 well, 33 1 , Strand ; Mr. Elliott, City Dispensary ; Mr. Bart- 

 lett, Finsbury Dispensary ; and by Mr. Taunton, where 

 plans may also be had. 



LIX. Additional Memoir upon living and fossil Elephants. 

 By M. CuviEK. 



[Continued from p. 2G-J.] 



VV HEN all the parts of the body of the tooth arc made and 

 consolidated, and when it comes to emerge from its alvcolui, 

 it undergoes changes of a new description. 



As the elephant is herbivorous, its teeth are worn down 

 by mastication, like those of all the animals who live upon 

 similar food. We even know, that it is necessary that their 

 teeth should be worn before their surft^ccs are in a lit state 



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