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XVI. An .Account of an iliac Paffion, from 
a Paljy of the large Inte fines ; communi- 
cated to Dr. De Caftro, F. R . S. Tra?f * 
lated from the Latin, by Tho. Stack M.D. 
. F. R. S. 
Read Feb. 21. /I MERCHANT, aged feventy, wlio 
I7:>0 ' jf\. had been accuftomed to hardlhips 
from his infancy, was, for the laid fix years, very 
fubject to rheumatic pains * but, looking on his dif- 
ordetr as the effedt of old age, he rejected all medical 
advice. In thefe circumftances it happened, that he 
was fuddenly fet upon by a party of foldiers, who, with 
fevere threatnings, turned him out of his houfe, and 
took poiTeilion of it : which fo terrified him, that he 
was feized with a violent belly-ach ; and his agony 
fo overpower’d him, that he fell on the ground half- 
dead ; and at the fame time he voided blood by the 
anus. 
When his fright and grief for the lofs of his fub- 
fdance were over, he return’d to his ufual way of 
life, and was much fubjedt to the gripes ail the en- 
duing winter, which he took no care of. During 
this time, he fuffer’d much from coftivenefs, till 
March 1747, when he was feized with fevere pains 
about the navel ; and tho’ he had clyfters of feveral 
forts given him, not one of them could be made 
to pafs. He was feverifh and thirfty, with a white 
moift tongue, and could not fieep. He was blooded 
as much as he could well bear ; and the blood did 
not appear inflammatory. He was treated with lax- 
ative medicines, antiphlogiftic fomentations, and every 
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