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the diforder is generally caufed by a link of 

 the inteftines being thrown (in playing, it is 

 fuppofed) acrofs a ligature fituated near the 

 anus ; and the cure is radically effected by* 

 breaking this ligature : an operation which 

 is not unfrequently performed *. 



If the ligature be really a firing of the 

 tefticle^ indcxteroufly left in the calf, much 

 caution is requifite in the operation of geld- 

 ing. 



An experienced cutter performed it thus J 

 Having extricated the tefticle,. and cut the 

 icminal chordthe " nature ftring," he 



forced 



* I remenrtber once to fiave feen this operation ; and 

 Iiave lately heard it minutely defcribed by a pcrfon 

 who has repeatedly performed it. It is fimple and fafe. 

 An orifice large enough to admit the hand being made 

 in the coats of the abdomen on the near or left-fide 

 (between the ribs, the huckle, and the flank) the in- 

 teftines are drawn forward into their natural fituation, 

 and the ftring broke : otherwife the beaft is liable to a 

 tcpedtion of the fame diforder. The fymptom* arc 

 rcftleflhefs, with attempts (but not violent, I believe; to 

 beat the belly with the hind legs; and with a ft >ppagc 

 of the focces ; nothing parting through the body but a 

 white (limy matter. In many places I apprehend this 

 diforder is not well underft cd ; being miftaken for 

 9iaw-bi*n<tt or other internal diforder. Death is of 

 cjurfe the inevitable coufe^uencc. 



