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ufe of emollient cataplafms might reftore fupplenefs 
to the inteftine B (Fig. 2. Plate IV. N° 460. and the 
figure hereto annexed) which' conftantly kept out of 
the belly, and was turned infide out, becaule it was 
the portion continuous to the catcum, colon, 7 -ectum , 
and anus , which could be of no ufe, but much in- 
commoded the patient by this extraordinary fituation. 
But all my trials were of no avail, altho’ they were 
carried fo far, as to render this gut quite bloody : its 
long expofure to the air made it become too thick 
and hard ; and at the fame time fo robuft or infenfi- 
ble, that all thefe vigorous applications made no bad 
impreflion on the reft of the animal oeconomy. In fine, 
Catherine Guillematre quitted our-hofpital without 
any other benefit but that of having afforded us an 
opportunity of inftruCting ourfelves. 
From that time I had no news of this woman till 
the 6th of May of this year 1750 ; when I was in- 
formed, that her body actually lay in our dead ward, 
and that the died in our hofpital of old age and a 
broken conftitution, as much as of any difeafe. 
I was extremely curious to embrace this oppor- 
tunity of having ocular demonftration of the probable 
conjecture, which I had made in this woman's life- 
time, and a confirmation of my having folved the 
aenigma, arifing from this fingular hernia. 
The annexed figure, which I drew from nature, 
reprefents the ftate of the parts, fomewhat lefs than 
he natural fize. In order perfectly to underftand 
what follows, it will be neceffary to have Plate IV. 
of N° 460, before the eye, together with this 
drawing. 
Explanation 
