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a Pound of crude Mercury by the Mouth, which made 
him fuffer the mod exquifite Pains; and his Belly 
dwell'd, and became as diff as a Drum. Here Dr, 
Moyitagne was fent for, who foon difcover'd the Er- 
ror in the preceding Practice, by feeling a folid Body 
near the ReEtum , which obdru&ing the Paffage, hin- 
der'd the Clyder-pipe from entering far enough into 
the Gut. After his Departure, the Patient was again 
order'd Clyders, which were injected with a crooked 
Pipe, and feveral Purges 5 till at the End of eight Days 
he died, having his Belly bigger, differ and' harder 
than ever. Though I arriv'd the Day before his Death, 
I faw him not tHl after he expir'd. His Phyfician 
having invited me to open the Body, I willingly con- 
fented, curious as I was to find the folid Refiftance or 
Tumor, which he could give no Account of. I fent 
for the Surgeon of the Village, who with a Riftouri 
(the only anatomical Inftrument he had) open'd the 
Abdomen by my Directions, which was fill'd with a 
whitilh Liquor of dome Confidence. The Epiploon 
was all diffolv’d, and fwam in this Liquor like lo much 
5 Pus. This Water pour'd out, I examin'd the Intel- 
tines. The Colon was burd under the Stomach, and ( 
in three other Places at its lower Part; and fo was the 
Coecum\ the Ileum all inflam'd, and in one Part gan- 
gren'd. The Lips of the Ruptures were plaifler'd 
with Excrements, all befet with a prodigious Number 
of Globules of Quickfilver ; and when the Inteflines 
were difengaged and taken out, the Quickfilver fell 
from them in large Drops. The other Vifcera were 
m the natural State, except the Liver, which was gan- 
gren'd. As I was very folicitous about the Tumor, I 
look'd into the *Pelvi$ 3 where I found an Excrefcence 
of 
