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The Tumour was now oblong, about the Bignefs 
of a Hen's Egg, fomewhat inflamed, yet not tenfe, 
nor fo painful as to take much Notice of it. Upon the 
repealed Ufe of the forementioned Means, and of 
lenient Purges and Opiates, the Vomitings and Hic- 
cough were at times flopped, and the Patient made fo 
much eafier, as to ground Hope of Succefs; but as 
during fix Days, the Patient had had no Paflage, and 
the Tumour could not be reduced, fo we thought it 
unfafe to delay the Operation any longer. At this 
Time fhe was free from Fever, the Belly was not 
tenfe, and fhe had great Intervals of Reft. 
The Tumour felt unequal (though it appear'd even) 
and pappy, as the Tumours of the Omentum gene- 
rally are, and therefore of that Kind that is always 
moft difficult to reduce ; the Omentum wanting that 
-elaftic Springinefs which favours the replacing of the 
Guts. Upon Difieftion we found it was imbodied 
in the hernial Bag, and that upon the external 
Surface of the Slits in the abdominal Mufclcs, the 
Folds of it had form'd a round Protuberance, not 
unlike' the Os Tine#, in th o. Vagina, or like a Bour - 
lety which, by compreffing the Gut, prevented the 
Return of it unto the Belly, and by obturating the 
■Opening, as the Gut was prefs'd upon it, had ftrangu- 
lated about an Inch of the Gut incompafs'd -by it in 
The Hernia . 
This being the <Sth Day from the Beginning 
of this Evil, the Gut there was found of a very 
Twarthy Colour, but yet fpringy, fo that it was not 
totally mortified. It lay inclos'd in a Net form'd 
•fey The Omentumy as a Fifh in a Fifliing-net, ftran- 
• gulating the Gut under its PrelTure without the -ab- 
dominal 
