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loading his ftomach ; purgatives, and every other 
medicine, operated as regularly upon him, as upon 
any other perfon. He was a well-made man, rather 
above the middle fize ; was as corpulent, and had as 
much ftrength, as moft of his years, until within a very 
little time of his death. 
His cafe having nothing particular in it, hut as far 
as the contents of the abdomen and fcrotum were 
concerned ; it was not thought necelTary to carry the 
examination of his body farther than through them. 
The large hernial bag I had meafured, as exactly a c 
I could, about a year before his death ; and found its 
length, from the os pubis to the mod: depending point, 
15 inches ; its greateft breadth, while it lay fupported 
by the thighs, 174. inches ; and its greateft circumfe- 
rence 34 inches : but in the body, the day after death, 
its length, from the pubis to the moft depending part, 
was only 13 inches; its breadth, to the part where it 
fell in between the thighs, 12 inches; its circumfe- 
rence round the thick, or fmalleft part, where it de- 
feended from the pubis, 19 inches; and round its 
large circumference, 27 inches. It was covered with 
the common integuments of the fcrotum ; but at its 
lower and pofterior parts, the cellular membrane, or 
dartos, was reduced to an almoft cartilaginous hard- 
nefs, where the weight, both in fitting, (landing, and 
lying, had the greateft effedl : the cicatrices alfo, 
where gangrenous Houghs had been call off, were of 
an equal firmnefs, and hardnefs under the knife. The 
tefticle of the left fide was plainly to be felt, at the 
prominent part, above, and to one fide of the opening 
for the penis, not fir from its natural fituation : the 
right tefticle wasobfeurely to be felt, a little above the 
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