£o 6 Dr. Lettsom’s Account of 
month, after repeated vomitings of a dark- coloured fluid, like 
coffee grounds, it finifhed its painful exigence. 
Bleeding, before the debility was become alarming, afforded 
no material refpite. Fomentations to the abdomen, and tepid 
bathing of the whole body, were equally ineffectual. Ano- 
dyne ftarch clyfters afforded feme- truce, but it could not be 
durable ; the nature of the mifchief was too momentous to 
afford any hope of permanent relief, as the diffe<Stion after 
death will evince. 
’Examination of the Body after Deathly Mr. Thomas \Vhately* 
Surgeon. 
Upon expofing the cavity of the abdomen, the figmoid 
flexure of the colon immediately prefented itfelf to view, en- 
larged to the fize of that of an adult, as alfo a large diftended 
inteftine appearing to be at firft view a continuation of the 
tranfverfe arch of this gut ; and at the place where this feeming 
arch joined the figmoid flexure, there appeared a firm or tight 
band, as if furrounding the inteffine, and here it was ftrongly 
bound down. 
On a nicer infpe<ftion this arch was found to be a portion of 
the ileum, which paffing within the band was inclofed in the 
figmoid flexure of the colon. 
All the parts between this portion of the fma.Il inteftines 
and the figmoid flexure, among ft which were the caput coli, 
caecum with its appendix, and the whole of the great arch of 
the colon, could no where be feen. The want- of thefe parts, 
the enlarged fize of the figmoid flexure, and the hard feel 
evidently (hewing that it contained fome fubftance, left no 
room to doubt, but that all the miffing portion of the inteftines 
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