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Functions, demonstrated to the very Eye*, as alfo the 
cyEn/gma occaCioned by thefe Two Guts, which were 
both of onePiece, as appears in Fig. 3 .TAB.IV.and which 
notwithftanding had Two Openings, the lower where- 
of voided the Excrements, and the upper difeharged 
nothing. I know of no other Perfon but Mr. Che - 
felden , who has obferved an inverted Gut in a living 
Body : But my Obfervation adds to his, 1 ft, Experi- 
ments on the A&ion of Purgatives : 2 dly, The fingular 
Figure of this Hernia , the Difcovery of which has an 
Influence on the radical Cure of this Difeafe, and on 
thole of the fame kind which may poffibly happen, 
as will be feen by the Sequel. 
I think I may give the Epithet of Singular to this 
fort of Hernia ; becaufc, upon InfpeCHon, one in- 
ftantly conceives, that the Gut which voided the Ex- 
crements was continuous to the Stomach, and the 
other to the Anus. But how was it poffible, that thefe 
Two inverted Guts fhould be of onePiece ? Let one 
imagine a Gut cut through by a Strangulation: There 
remain Two Orifices, one that runs to the Stomach, 
the other to \hzAnus : If the Canal of each of thefe 
©rifices turns Infide out, and prolapfes, as it happens, 
to th z Anus', you then have Two Guts prolapfed and 
turned, but they are diftinft one from the other, far 
from being of one Piece. It muft be allowed, that 
the c^yEnigma is puzzling : And indeed, a good Num- 
ber of Surgeons law this Singularity, but not one of 
them accounted for it. The Reader, if he be an 
Anaromift, has but to attempt the Solution, in order 
to be fcnlible of the Difficulty. The Figures, Tab. IV. 
annexed to this Tran faff ion, pcrfc&ly refcmble Life, 
only lomewhat contracted. 
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