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tinued, infomuch that this will continue even fomc 
Days after the Reduction of the Gut is made. 
Parts inflamed, and in Contaft, will foon flick and 
coalefce together: Pain is the indicating Sign of In- 
flammation, and an Inflammation is an Intumefa&ion 
of the Vefiels in the Parts inflamed- If then Pain 
happens to be an Attendant of a Rupture, wherein 
the Omentum is concern’d, and the Parts fo inflamed 
continue in Contact:, that is, if the Parts prolapled in 
a Rupture are not foon reduced, they will fwell in the 
Bag, and be knit together, and by filling up the Open- 
ing, by which they had prolapfed, choak up the 
Paflage, clog and prevent the returning back, com- 
prefs the Guts under the Preflure, and ftrangulate them 
more and more, in proportion as their Bulk fhall 
increafe, fo long as the Fluids can flow into the 
comprefs’d Canals ; in which at laft they ftagnate, and 
upon Extravalation fuppurate, or the Mortification of 
the Parts comprefs’d enfues. 
III. An Account of a Pin taken out of the 
Bladder of a Child, by Mr. William Gre- 
gory, Surgeon $ communicated in a Letter 
to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Tr. R. S. 
Brompton near Chatham t 
Jan 4. 1733-4- 
I Was call’d to the Afllftance of a Woman in Tra- 
vail. The Foetus prefented in a tranfverfe Pofition ; 
I foon recover’d the Feet, and in a few Minutes deli- 
ver’d the Woman. The Funiculus Umbilicalis was 
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