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ment. Upon examination, the tumor was foft, es- 
pecially at the upper pa; t towards the ring, which 
teemed to be fo free and difengaged, that the finger 
with the integuments might be pufhed under it : 
the large cord, which came down to it, was flat, foft, 
and. appeared to be compofcd entirely of the Sper- 
matic vcfiels enlarged. 
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i l)e extremity of the Swelling, which was of the 
fize of a large orange, was evidently a very transpa- 
rent hydrocele; at the baits of which Some hard 
points were to be felt, which I thought to be 
fchirrous tumors. I concluded, therefore, that his 
complaint was an old hernia, Succeeded by a lar- 
cocele and an hydrocele, and that the inteftine was 
at that time returned. I imagined that the vomitings, 
which were not frequent, might be caufed by Some 
other diforder, perhaps by the progrefs which the 
farcocele might have made in the cavity of the ab- 
domen ; and Ialfo thought that the weak and almoft 
dying ftate he appeared to be in, was a prognoftic of 
the fatal manner in which thofe cales ufually termi- 
nate; for his ftrenglh was fo far exhaufted, that he 
expired in the following night. 
1 was very defirous of examining the cafe, having 
been always induced to fulped, from the vomitings, 
and the flatnefs, foftnefs, and fize of what pafled 
through the ring, that there was a defeent of the 
inteftine. 
See Tab. XIII. Upon opening the common hernial 
he, a. b. b. a large portion of inteftine, c. d. e.f g. pre- 
sented itfelf, which w 7 as very flaccid and almoft empty; 
but what Surprized me moft, was, to find that thecon- 
voluted 
