j lo Dr. Lettsom’s Account of 
As long as the parts had been in this very uncommon fixa- 
tion, the feces mu ft have paffed through the valve of the 
colon, diredly into the very loweft part of the redum, with- 
out ever coming in contad with any portion of the large 
inteftines. 
And in the laft week of the child’s life, when a prolapfus 
frequently happened, the feces paffed diredly from the ileum 
into the night-ftool. 
The arch of the ileum, in default of that of the colon, 
formed the refervoir for the feces ; which, with the partial 
interruption to their paflage by the ftridure occafioned by the 
band, probably caufed its enlargement. But the feces con- 
tained in it were of a thinner confidence, and wanted the 
fetor ufually met with in the colon. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
TAB. VII. 
A general view of the inteftines, in the fituation in which 
they appeared on firft opening the body, 
aa. The enlarged ileum, putting on the appearance of the 
great arch of the colon. 
h. The fudden enlargement of the ileum. 
c. The ileum paffing within the band into the colon. 
d. Part of the omentum pafling within the band. 
e . The inteftinal band, formed by the inverfion of the great 
arch of the colon immediately above it ceafing at this place. 
