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may be of fome Ufe in Practice : Therefore I fend it 
firft. 
Mr. Burman , a Taylor of this Town, about 40, 
had from his Childhood laboured under a fmall in- 
guinal Rupture on the Right Side; but about Six 
Years before his Death, from a Blow received in his 
Groin, the Hernia became very large, and the Gut 
always remained down in the Scrotum ; for he wore 
no Bag, Trufs, or the like, to fupport it. The Day 
before his Death, he was following his Work, as 
ufual, with his Preiling-iron, without any violent 
Jerk, or Straining; but, about 10 in the Morning, all 
at once, he felt a very great Pain in his Right Inguen ; 
which, continually increafing, in Two or Three 
Hours threw him into Vomitings, cold Sweats, &c\ 
His Apothecary, Mr. Ellery , gave him a Clyfter, 
which brought off a fmall matter of thin Stool ; but 
gave no Relief, though it had been formerly very 
ferviceable to him in the like Difordcr. About 
Eight in the Evening I was fent for, and found him 
in cold Sweats, with fcarce any Pulfe: The hernial 
Tumour was prodigious large, and exceeding hard ; the 
Pains extremely violent, which caufed excelTive Lan- 
guors. 1 immediately ordered, that he fhould be 
placed in a proper Pofture, that a warm aromatic 
emollient Fomentation fhould be frequently and long 
applied, and that a Reduction of the Inteftine fhould 
be attempted ; or, if that did not fuccced, that the 
Operation for the Bubonocele fhould be performed. 
The Fomentation was tried a long while, emol- 
lient Terebinthinate Clyfters injected, and the Re- 
duction attempted, for an Hour or Two, by Mr. John 
Start , a skilful Surgeon, but in vain : Nay, the Swcl- 
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