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atque efficaciam indipifcuntur. Hxc de aquis Neo- 
[blienfium gratis, feu vitrioticis, obfervafle, pre- 
tium operae vifum eft. 
Tifonii, A. CId la CCXXXVIII. Idibus Augufti. 
II. Of a Bubonocele or Rupture in the Groin, 
and the Operation made upon it ; by Claud. 
Amyand, Ejq- y Serjeant Surgeon to His 
Majesty, and F. R. S. 
U PON the 8th Day of Ottober 1 737, my Lord 
Thomond’s Coachman's Wife, Mrs. Bennet , 
of a thin Habit of Body, aged 70, had a Return of a 
Tumour in the Groin, with unufual Pain, which 
was foon followed with a cruciating one in the Belly, 
and fuch Colicks, Reachings, and excrementitious 
Vomitings, as ufually attend the Strangulation of the 
Gut in the Miferere met . This came upon her 
unaware, and the Diftrefs fhe was in, made her forget 
that for 2j Years laft-paft fhe had had a Swelling in 
the Groin as big as a Hafcl-nut, which feldom had 
given her any Uneafinefs, and which fhe never fu- 
fpe&ed to be a Rupture. Of late fhe had been more 
fubjeft to Colics than ufual, but that was imputed 
to bad Digeftions ; and that Day fhe had ufed no Mo- 
tion capable of producing a Rupture : So that it was 
by chance that Mr. <r Defpaignol 7 who was fent for the 
next Day, difeover'd the Caufe of the Complaints* 
She was blooded, clyftefd, fomented, poulticed, and 
embrocated 5 but the Complaints fubfifting, with a 
continual Singultus, I was called in, the nth. 
The 
