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VI* Of cm Iliac PafHorij occafoned by cut 
Appendix in the Uion : By the late Clau- 
dius A my and Bfq\ Serjeant-Surgeon to 
His Maj e&yland F. R. S. ' 
w M a y 2 .y j PON the I5th of Sepumber I73p> 
a Lad about io Years of A°-e 
feemingly in perfect Health, after drinking fome four 
Small-Beer, complained of a violent Colic j which 
increafing with great Tenfion of the Belly, and con- 
tinual Vomitings of Excrements, he died three Days 
after of a Miferere , ending in a Mortification of the 
inflamed Guts. 
He was fufpefted to have been poifoned j which 
occafioned Mr, Maccullough's being fent for to open 
him. All the large Guts were found empty, up to 
an Appendix, or a hernious Expanfion in the Uion, 
about three Inches long, and of the fame Dimen- 
lions with the Gut itfelf; which was fo contracted 
and lhut by a Spafm, that as nothing could pafs 
downwards, fo all the Faeces were retained in 
the inteftinal Pipe betwixt this and the Stomach 
which was greatly diftended as far as the Pylorus ■ 
the Opening into the Stomach there, and that 
in the Guts below, which were contra&ed and 
fpafmed j being fo clofe, as hardly to admit of a 
fmall Probe. 
The frequent Vomitings of Excrements., during 
Life, fhew'd, that the Stricture at the Pylorus 
had occafionally given Way to their corning into 
the Stomach ; bur, as thefe were thrown up as 
foon as let in, this Vifcus was found as empty, as 
the Guts were below the ftrangulated Gut/ thro 3 
1 which 
