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pendix, or a hernious expansion in the ilion, about 3 inches long, and of the 

 same dimensions with the gut itself; which was so contracted and shut by a 

 spasm, that as nothing could pass downwards, so all the faeces were retained in 

 the intestinal pipe, between this and the stomach, which was greatly distended 

 as far as the pylorus ; the opening into the stomach there, and that in the guts 

 below, which were contracted and spasmed ; being so close, as hardly to admit 

 of a small probe. 



The frequent vomitings of excrements, during life, showed that the stricture 

 at the pylorus had occasionally given way to their coming into the stomach ; but 

 as these were thrown up as soon as let in, this viscus was found as empty as the 

 guts were below the strangulated gut; through which nothing had passed during 

 the course of the disease. 



This appendix of the ilion, more capacious and longer than that usually ob- 

 served in the caecum, being supported by no mesentery, lay loose and floating. 

 At its opening into the gut, it made an acute angle, determining the course of 

 the faeces from the upper gut into it, and obstructing their descent into the 

 natural pipe : where the current was made difiicult, from a defect in some seg- 

 ment of the fibres inservient to the vermicular or peristaltic action ; which 

 probably was the occasion of the spasm, the contracted fibres of the gut having 

 no antagonist above, and the compelling force to conquer the resistance being 

 wanting. 



In the liver there was a steatomatous tumour stretched out through its sub- 

 stance, containing in its cystis about 8 ounces of matter ; but so disposed, that 

 the course of the fluids and juices in and out was not impeded. 



A Proposal for Wiarming Rooms by t/ie Steam of Boiling fVater conveyed in Pipes 

 along the Walls : and a Method of preventing Ships from Leaking, whose 

 Bottoms are eaten by the Worms. By Col. Wm. Cook. N" 476, p. 370. 



This is an engine for giving a sufficient heat to all the rooms in the house from 

 the kitchen fire. It consists of a copper or boiler, of water, on the kitchen fire, 

 having a still-head. From the top of this passes a pipe of lead or copper, to 

 convey the hot steam from the boiler, through the several rooms, in a very zig- 

 zag maimer ; being fixed to the wall or side of the room in the place of the chim- 

 ney; the pipe tenninating in an opening or exit. In several parts of the pipe are 

 placed turncocks, either to shut or contract the passage, to adapt the heat more 

 or less according to circumstances. 



When a ship's bottom is so eaten by the worms, that she is no longer fit for 

 service, try the following method; viz. first calk well the inside planks or lining; 

 then fill the vacant spaces between the timbers, and the out and inside planks, with 

 boiling pitch or resin, as high as the main gun deck. The pitch, being put in 



