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6. G> two inclin’d planes, for the Men to ftand on, 
drf, when they put in, or take out Planks, or water the 
Sand. 
1 he bottom of the Stove, made of Iron. 
/. /. The Grates to lay the Fewel on. 
VL ^ Letter from the ^yerend Mr. James Field, 
i^eFlor of St, Johns in Antegoa, concerning 
two Cajes of Wounds in the Stomach, to A/r. John 
Douglas, Surgeon, F. R, S. 
SIR, 
H E Accidents of which you defire me to 
give you an account, were as follows. 
A lufly young Negro man returning home about 
Noon, went into his Houfe, where feeing (ome ripe 
Plantains, he cat of them heartily ; his Father in Law, 
about 6o Years of age, coming to 'the fame Houfe 
foon after, enquired of the young Fellow,' who 
had taken his Plantain^ Who anfwered. That he 
being hungry, had eaten them. Ay, you Dog, fays 
the old Fellow, have you ferved me fo, I kept them 
for my own Dinner ; and without more ado, took 
his Kni e, and gave the young Fellow a moll defperate 
Vi'ound in the upper Region of the Belly, a vail: Gafii 
being made in the 'Stomach, in fo much that the Plan- 
taini which he had eaten, burft 'through the Wound, 
which was made ftreight up and down. 
The 
