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difficulty feparated, and often not without danger of 
tearing : the inteffines alfo adhered in the fame man- 
ner, to one another; all, by means of a firm cellular 
membrane. The containing bag was very firm, thick 
and ftrong, as obferved before. Its aperture, at the 
right ring from the abdomen, was fo wide, as readily 
to allow a middle-fized hand to pafs through it, from 
the abdomen, for a fmall fpace, betwixt its anterior 
edge, and the convolutions of the lower extremity 
of the ftomach, and the femi-circular turn it made to 
the pylorus, with the beginning of the duodenum 
from thence, and the other extremity of the duode- 
num, before the jejunum commenced, and that part 
of the colon which returned into the pelvis; all of 
which were lodged in the very aperture : fo that the 
fpace left unoccupied by thefe parts could not be 
much lefs than 8 inches in circumference : notwith- 
llanding which, very little of a watery fluid was found 
in the lac : indeed it would not have had a very eafy 
admittance, from the many adhefions formed betwixt 
the fac and its contained parts, a little below the 
opening from the abdomen. 
The above is a tedious perhaps, but a circum- 
ftantial, and juft reprefentation of this extraordinary 
cafe : which I fhall not, at prefent, lengthen by de- 
ductions or reafonings ; farther, than to admire the 
exquilite composition of that moft admirably formed 
machine, which could bear fo great am alteration in its 
parts, without a manifeft impediment to its moft 
material actions : feeing here, life, and even health,, 
went happily on, through a great length of years, 
though the whole lyftem almolt of the inteftincs had 
been, lor many of thefe years, without the reach of the 
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