Ail account of the cutting cm the Caecum cf a Bitch bj the Jngemous 
William Mufgrave LL* B, Student in Phyfickj and Fellow of 
New-College Oxon. 
^•^■g— ^He uk of the Cdc mhclngAWl a Defider at nm in Anatomy, 
i 1 thought it worth my w hile to try, what light the cutting 
Ml, w of lhat part, might afford us, in a matter fo obfcuie : 
in my firft experiment of this kind (which, was in the Eafter-week 
1683J n^y hopes were foon defeated, by the death of the Dog, 
two days after the Operation ^ but being more fuccefsful in a fe- 
cond attempt, I will now (according to your defirej give you an 
account of it : 
April 1633. I took a Bitch, of about a year old, and opcnd the 
Abaomev}^ on the right fide, in the Regio llUca-i pafTing my knife thro 
Mnf culm ohhque alcendens^zx^^ by the fide of the Mnfculus %€- 
Bus \ having found the Cdicum^ I iramediatly put up the other gutts 
again into the Abdomen^ after which 1 feparated -the C<gr«w from 
the //^//»?, cutting the membrane which binds part of the former 
to the latter then, having made a ligature on the artery which 
. comes to the Cacum, I made three, or four prick- feams thro the 
fidesof theC^gr/^w;, atthe farther end of it, where it is continued to 
tht%e5lum^ and by thus fowling the fides together, ftopt the paf- 
fage of the Forces that way ^ after this I cutt off the Cacnm about I of 
an inch from the ftitches,' and fowed together the new made lips, 
entringmy needle alwais on the infideand pafling it thro the outer 
membrane, that fo the lips might the better touch edgewais, and 
grow together, the wounds being fowed up, and the Bitch tied 
away, milk is fct before her,of which fliclapt a fmall quantity the 
next morning, and by degrees recovered, fo that in three weeks 
ihe feemed as well as ever | in a little time ( running up and down 
in the College) (be grew fat, and proud, and the laft fummer 
brought a litter of Whelps: In fourmoneths obfervationi could 
not perceive any fuch alteration in her, as might reafpnably be im- 
puted to the lofs of the C^cnm. 
Sept. 19. J6S3' Icaufed her to be hangd, and Opjend her a fe- 
cond time ; Dr. Pitt, our Learned Profeffor of ^natomj, was 
pleafcd to oblige me with his company 5 we found a gr:eat part of 
the OmentHm ly in^a heap on the right fide ^ it had not recovered - 
its natural poflure, fince it was put up with the guts at the firfi: o. 
pening ; the edges of the wound were well grown together v in 
iTiort, we did not find any thing that feemed to intimate the leaft 
want, or fupply the placeof the Cuum. 
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