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and white. She is dill alive, and ready to atteft the 
truth of this narrative. 
Kidderminfter, 
Sept, nth, 1757. 
J. Johnftone. 
LXXII. A remarkable Cafe of Cohefons of 
all the Inteftines , See. in a Man of about 
\ Thirty-four Tears of Age , who died fome 
time lajl Summer , and afterwards fell un- 
der the InfpeElton of Mr, Nicholas Jenty. 
Read Feb. 9, f | A H E fubjedt was tall, and partly 
emaciated. I found nothing ex- 
ternally but a wound in the left fide, which feemed 
to me to have been degenerated into an ulcer. As I 
did not know the man when he was alive, and had 
him two days after his deceafe, I cannot give an im- 
mediate account of the caufe of his death. But in 
opening his abdomen, I found the epiploon adhering 
Olofe to the inteftines, in fuch a manner, that I could 
not part it without tearing it. It felt rough and dry. 
And as I was going to remove the inteftines, to exa- 
mine the mefentery, I found them fo coherent one 
with the other, that it was impoftible for me to di- 
vide them without laceration. Then I inflated the 
inteftihal tube, for the infpe&ion of this extraordi- 
nary phenomenon ; but, to my great furprize, all 
the external parts of the inteftines appeared frnooth ; 
very few of the circumvolutions were feen, occa- 
fioned by the ftrong lateral cohefions of their fides 
with 
