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and, upon carefully examining the part, I found a hard 
fubitance deeply feated, which I directly extradled'^. 
It was making its way towards the integuments from 
the extremity of the appendix vermiformis of the cecum, 
which probably, and fortunately, by former inflamma- 
tions had adhered to the peritoneum. The large end 
came firft, and the fmall end was within the appendix 
vermiformis of the cecum at the time I took it out ; for, 
immediately upon the extraction, fome excrements fol- 
lowed, and among them fome dark brown particles 
which I difcovered to be filings of iron, which the patient 
had formerly taken in a large quantity, as flie had never 
been regular like other women. On a careful examina- 
tion I found fome of thefe filings quite reduced to ruft, 
(a) See plate IX. the figures 1. and 2. are different views of the external 
furface of this irregular fubftance, and of fo much of its nucleus as proje&s out 
of the round part, exaddy as both appeared on being taken out of the body*. 
The whole was of a dufky brown colour, and had a great relemblance to a 
fmall fhrivelled pear. Fig. 3. is a fe£lion of the round part, which feemed to 
be formed of fine fibrous fubftances, clofely cemented together by an earthy 
matter, and of die peg of crab-tree wood, its nucleus . This figure likewile 
fhews how far the peg went in, and alfo an incruftation of (tony matter upon it. 
The nucleus , I believe, is the fmaller end of that part of a fillc engine called 
a flar, at which machine the patient had been employed before fhe was five 
years of age, therefore it muff have been lodged at leafl fixteen years within 
the appendix vermiformis of the ccecum, as fhe remembers nothing of fvvallowing 
and as during that courfe of years file had frequently been afflidled. with tke 
feyere colics before-mentioned. 
but 
