VOL. XXXVII.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 529 



Three extraordinary Cases communicated by Claudius Amyand, Esq. F. R. S. 

 viz. 1. A Child born tuith the Boruels hanging out of the Belly. 2. A Sup- 

 pression of Urine in a IVoman. 3. A Stricture in the middle of the Sto- 

 mach, dividing it into two Bags. N° 422, p. 258. 



1. Dec. 18, 1730, a child was born with the greatest part of the bowels 

 hanging out of the belly, by an aperture about half an inch in diameter on the 

 right side of the navel string. The birth was natural and easy. 



Mr. A. found the aperture lined with a skin, and a ligament that opposed 

 the reduction; the parts livid, and tending to mortification; yet the child lived 

 near 3 days. On opening, he found the prolapsus to consist of all the small 

 guts, except the duodenum, and of all the large ones, except a small portion 

 of the rectum: the gall-bladder was about 2 inches long, one half of which 

 stood out of the abdon)en, and a small portion of the stomach : all these were 

 so coalesced and confounded together, that it was impossible to separate them; 

 though on blowing, the intestinal tube seemed to have its usual length. The 

 liver was much thicker and larger than usual, and convex in that part of it, 

 which is naturally concave : and the uterus and bladder pressed on the left side, 

 by the weight of the bowels pressing on the right. 



The mother could assign no cause for this preternatural formation. The 

 child came at full term ; but its inquietudes for some months before the birth, 

 made the mother apprehend it was not well. 



2. Mr. A. was called to a woman who had a suppression of urine, occa- 

 sioned by the menses collected in the vagina, pressing on the urethra. She had 

 been delivered 8 months before of 2 children ; after which the carunculae myr- 

 tiformes had joined together so closely, that there was no room for any evacu- 

 ation of the menses. He made a cross aperture, by which near 3 quarts of the 

 menses collected were discharged ; the suppression of urine was immediately 

 removed, and the patient cured. 



3. On opening the body of a young country girl, dead of a consumption, 

 Mr. A. found her lungs suppurated in many places, and a stricture in the 

 middle of the stomach, dividing this viscus into 2 bags. This stricture appeared 

 to have been of some standing, and likely to have occasioned some difficulty 

 in digestion; but on inquiry, her mistress and fellow servants said, that her ap- 

 petite and digestions were natural, and that she had continued in a good plight, 

 till on coming to London she contracted a cough, that brought on the con- 

 sumption. 



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