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whole was reduced, was to close the exterior orifice of this demolished canal ; 

 that is, to close the opening made by the strangulation and mortification ; and 

 he conceived that this last operation was very feasible. The next thing to be 

 done was to refresh the lips of the fistula formed by the integuments of the 

 abdomen, which are thick enough, and on which shall be afterwards made a 

 gastroraphia proportionate to these parts. 



The great difficulty was to reduce this end of gut, which was become hard, 

 and full of tubercles. He had already made a fruitless attempt, both with 

 cataplasms to repair the damages, and with manual operations proper for making 

 it re-enter. He was actually watching a favourable moment for this operation. 

 If he succeeded he intended to stay for making a 2d operation, till this gut has 

 remained long enough in the belly to repair itself, and resume its functions. In 

 order to that, he would content himself for the first 8 days, with keeping it in 

 the belly, applying resolving fomentations, and giving proper clysters. Then 

 he would put into the opening of the intestinal canal, that would answer to the 

 fistula, a silver canula of the same bore with the gut ; in order to push this 

 portion of a canal into the belly, to support it therein, and re-establish its com- 

 munication with the portion newly reduced. This silver canula would be fixed 

 by a plate of the same metal, guarded with plaster and linen, and placed on the 

 fistula, where it should be secured in its situation by a bandage. He would 

 then redouble the use of the clysters, and when he should be certain of the 

 re-establishment of the communication of the 2 guts, and the functions of the 

 portion continuous to the anus ; then he would withdraw the silver canula, and 

 would perform the operation, as abovesaid. 



Concerning the Circulation of the Blood, as seen in the Tail of a Water-Eft, 

 through a Solar Microscope. By the Rev. Mr. Henry Miles. N" 460, p. 725. 



This paper is now of no consequence, since it is well known that the com- 

 mon water-newt is one of the most favourable subjects for exhibiting a general 

 view of the circulation, which appears to peculiar advantage in the tail of the 

 male animal. 



Concerning the true Delineation of the jisterisms in the ancient Sphere. By the 

 Rev. Ebenezer Latham, V. D. M. and M. D. N° 460, p. 730. 



This is a method of fitting up the celestial artificial globe, by furn>sning it 

 with a moveable and temporary axis, which may be shifted occasionally, and set 

 in a position answerable to any former age and position of the heavens, allowing 

 after the rate of 50" a year for the precession of the equinoxes. In such situa,-? 



