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unable to go through the duty of a foldier, he was 
admitted to the out-penfion of Chelfea hofpital. Its 
fize was then fuch, that he was obliged to have a particu- 
lar bag made in the forepart of his breeches, to enable 
him to carry about its weight, and always wore a 
leathern apron to conceal its figure. For fix or feven 
years before his death, the weight and bulk of the 
hernia had made fuch an alteration, in the outward 
appearance of the parts about the lcrotum, that the 
penis was entirely buried in the tumor ; a fmall oval 
opening only was left, out of which the urine was dif- 
charged : this opening was fometimes excoriated, from 
the acrimony of the urine, as the penis could not be 
extracted to throw it off, nor the glans be made to ap- 
pear by any endeavours : after death, it could be 
protruded no farther outwards, than as it is fhewn in 
Fig. 2. A year or two before his death, after a 
cold, and fretting the part by too much walking, the 
urine had brought on a confiderable inflammation, 
which mortified to a large extent, one confiderable 
efchar, formed upon the anterior and molt depending 
part of the bag, one lefs on the right fide where it 
touched the thigh, and a third behind ; yet all caff off 
and healed kindly, by the help of the bark, warm 
dreffings, & c. Except from this accident, in the latter 
years of his life, he was not fubjedt to any other com- 
plaints than are common at his years ; fuch as dimnefs 
of fight, catarrhous coughs, fhortnels of breath upon 
motion, fwellings of his legs occafionally : and he wore 
off at laft by a gentle decay, having ail along had as 
good an appetite, and digeftion, as could be expedited 
at his time of life ; regular difcharges, both by {tool 
and urine ; very rarely vomitings, except from over- 
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