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(ible for the external Air to enter into the Cavity of 
the Abdomen that Way, 
^he Symptoms during Life. 
^ I was called the xd Day of November about Eleven 
o Clock in the Forenoon, being the fourth Day after he 
received the Wound. 
I. The Surgeons who had attended him from the 
Beginning, Meffieurs Flqueh Coldham, Wilkie and 
Blacky being prefent, told me that his Belly had been 
diftended, as I faw it, from the Beginning, giving the 
Appearance of a Tympany, or Afcites, and it conti- 
nued at the fame Pitch of Diftenlion, neither dimi- 
nifhed, nor fenfibly encreafed, to the Time of his 
Death. 
II. No RuSlus or Flatus^ upwards or downwards 
nor Borborygmly notwithffanding this Diftenfion of 
the Belly. 
III. He never went once to Stool after he received 
the Wound, though pretty ftrong Purgatives and fe- 
veral Clyfters had been given for the three Days be- 
fore I came ; and though no Opiat (which might have 
been fuppofed to have retarded their Operation) had 
hitherto been exhibited : Neither had thofe Purgatives 
nor Clyfters, which I ordered afterwards, the leaft 
Effed. 
IV. He took what was thought a fufficientduantity 
of Drink and liquid Food. 
V. He never flept, or but very little, by fhort Slum- 
bers, of about half an Hour, or an Hour at longell, 
and that very rarely, notwithftanding pretty large 
Dofes of Opiats were given to procure Reft, after I 
came. . ‘ 
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VI. The 
