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it had been in the Colon in the broadefl: Part of it. This 
was very much contracted, and made narrow in that 
Part of it that had been fhot through, where it ap- 
peared putfed up,, and infeparably knit to the Ilium 
Bone. However, the Patient never had complained 
of any Inconveniency therefrom, though the Narrow- 
nefs of the Gut in this Place was Inch, as feemed to 
make the Defcent of the Faeces difficult.. 
Observation III. 
On the 19th of January 1 729, I attended Mifs 
aged 14, on account of a fuppurated Tumour on the. 
Navel, whofe Situation was under the Mufculi Relit.. 
This Patient had had, what is truely called, a Starting- 
at the Navel in her Infancy * and of late had com- 
plained, at Times, of a Swelling there,, and alfo of 
Colicks, Gripes, or Vomitings, that ufed to go off, 
particularly as that Swelling difappeared. As thefe 
^grew more troublefome, fhe lately had taken a Vomit, 
from which Time fhe had. been greatly cauftive, and 
her Reachings, Vomitings, and Colicks, had proved 
more conftant, together with an increaSng Tenfion 
and Pain in the Fore-part of the Belly, and aTendernefs 
at the Navel, as Matter was gathering there. 
Some Days before I was called in, Dr. Campbell 
had employed the propereft Remedies to remove thefe 
Complaints. Upon a Confutation,, we agreed to< 
difeharge by Incifion the Matter collected at the Na- 
vel, being about a Spoonful of undigefted Fluid, that 
had made its way through the Apmeurofis of the Ab- 
dominal Mufcles adjoining to the Navel Cicatrix: 
Notwithftanding which, the Tenfion of the Belly,. 
