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without any previous Ligature, the V eflels in it being 
fmall, and the Subftance of it more like a Sweet- 
bread than the Caul. 
, Much Time was fpent in this Diffedion; we were 
{heightened for Room, and greatly difturbed by the 
Difcharge of the Faeces coming out of the Gut, upon 
every Motion the Pin lodged in it and the Omentum 
fuffered, upon the Separation of thefe from each 
other. The Gut forming a double Tube, like a 
double- jointed Syphon, continuing in the Curve as it 
faffed over the Tefticule and Spermaticks, was feparated 
one part from the other and from the adjacent Parts, as 
far as the Aperture in the Abdominal Mufcles, where 
the unperforated End of it was feparated therefrom, and 
thence ftretched out and unfolded, which brought in 
View the Aperture made in it by the Pin hitherto con- 
cealed, through which that Part of it, which was in- 
crufted with Chalk, had juft made its way out upon 
an occafional Preffure, as a Cork out of a Bottle. It 
was the Opinion of the Phyficians and Surgeons pre- 
fent, to amputate this Gut : To which End a circular 
Ligature was made about the found Part of it, two 
Inches above the Aperture, and this being cut off an 
Inch below the Ligature, was replaced in the Abdo- 
men, in fuch a Manner that an artificial Anus might 
be made there, if the Patient's Cafe fhould require it. 
Afterwards fo much of the Hernial Bag as had been 
detached from the Skin, the Spermaticks, &c. was 
cut off, which, as they appeared in a found State, were 
preferved in Situ. The Fiftulous Opening adjoining 
to the Thigh, and anfwering to the Aperture in the 
Gut, was opened; feme Angles of Skin in the Way 
removed ; The Aperture in the Mufcles, which had 
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