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XXXVII. A7t Account of a very remarkable 
Cafe of aBoy^ who^ notwithjlanding that a 
confiderable Part of his Intejlines were 
forced out by the Fall of a Cart upon himy 
and afterwards cut offy recoveredy a?td con- 
tinues welL 
Read June the third of January lyyy, I 
*755- was called to John, the fon of 
Lancelot Watts (a day-labourer, living at Brunfted), 
a fervant-boy to Mr. Pile, a farmer at Weft wick, near 
North-WaUham, Norfolk, aged thirteen years. He 
was overturned in a cart, and thrown hat on his face, 
witji the round, or edge of one fide of the cart, 
(bottom upwards) whelmed acrofs his loins, the 
upper part of the body lying beyond the wheel at 
right angles. In this helplefs condition he continued 
fome time, and w^as found with a very large portion 
of the inteftincs forced out at the anus, with part of 
the mefentery (and fome loofe pieces of fat, which 
I took to be part of the omentum), hanging down 
below the hams double, like the reins of a bridle, 
very much diftended and inflamed. He had a con- 
tinual naufea, and violent reachings to vomit, and 
threw up every thing he took. The pain of the fto- 
mach and bowels was exquifite, attended with con- 
vulflons ; his pulfe low and quick ; and frequently lie 
fell into cold fweats. After ufing an emollient and 
fpirituous fomentation, I reduced the parts, though to 
no purpofe : the vomiting immediately returned, and 
forced them out again. Next day the fever increafed, 
the naufea and reachings to vomit continued, the 
parts 
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