VIII. A preternatural Perforation found in the upper 
Part of the Stomach, with the Symptoms it 
prodtic^dy by Mr* Chriftopher Rawlinfon, 
Surgeon, 
J Ames Skidmore had complain’d for Three or Four 
Years laft paft, of a violent Pain in his Stomach and 
Bowels, never being able to reft in his Bed at Night, 
'till he had vomited up the greateft Part of what he had 
eat or drank the Day before. He would often compare 
. his Pain to fome great Weight laying upon the Region 
of the Stomach, which he in fome Meafure alleviated, 
by prefting hard with his Hand upon that Part. When 
. he turn’d himfelf in Bed from one Side to the other, 
he told me, he could plainly perceive that fome Fluid 
or other fell down with Noife to the depending Side j 
which Fluid he believ’d to be the Occafton of all his 
Mifery : For which Reafon he often faid, he would 
willingly confent, nay, often earneftly prefs’d that the 
Surgeons would cut him open (as he exprelled it) and 
let it out. 
He had no apparent Tumour upon the Part, nor was 
his Belly more extended than ufual. He had had the 
Advice of feveral able Phyficians before he came into 
the Hofpital, but all without the leaft Amendment to 
his Difeafe. When he died we were defired to open 
him, and try if we could find outtheCaufe of his Com- 
plaints. As faon as we had penetrated the Teriton^* 
urn, there flow’d out a whitifli Liquor, not much un- 
like to Whey, only a little more thick and feculent 
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