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VIII- Of an Inguinal Rupture, with a Pin 
in the Appendix Coed, incrujted with 
Stone ; and fame Obfervations on 
Wounds in the Guts ; by Claudius 
Amy and, Efq * Serjeant Surgeon to His 
Majesty, andF.R.S. 
'/~\Ctober S, 1737. Hanvil Anderfon , a Boy, xi 
^ Years of Age, was admitted into St. George’s Ho- 
spital near Hyde-Dark Corner, for the Cure of a 
Hernia Scrotalis , which he had had from his In- 
fancy, and a Fiftula between the Scrotum and Thigh 
terminating into it, which for a Month laft paft had 
difcharged a great Quantity of an unkindly fort of 
Matter. The Rupture was final 1 , and not trouble- 
fome, and Part of it could be replaced, but as it ap- 
peared that the Sinuous Ulcer fprung from that Part 
that could not $ fo "twas evident that the Cure of the 
Fiftula depended upon the Cure of the Hernia, which 
latter could be obtained by no other Operation than 
that for the Bubonocele , which was agreed to, and 
performed the 6th Day of 'December following. 
This Operation proved the moft complicated and 
perplexing I ever met with, many unfufpe&ed Oddi- 
ties and Events concurring to make it as intricate as 
it proved laborious and difficult. 
This Tumour, principally compofed of the Omen- 
tum, was about the Bignefs of a fmall Pippin ; 
In it was found the Appendix Coed perforated by 
a Pin incrufted with Stone towards the Head, the 
Point of which having perforated that Gut, gave way 
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