6i o Dr. hunter and Mr. watson’s Account 
The heart and lungs were examined with great care* 
but there was hardly any appearance of diforder in either, 
contrary to what was expected. 
The conjecture that had been formed about the com- 
plaint in the bowels proved to be perfectly juft. The 
fmall inteftines were apparently pretty found ; the caecum 
and beginning of the colon were much diftended with 
air, but not inflamed. The arch, or tranfveife turn of 
the colon, was likewife much diftended, and its blood- 
veflels were fo loaded, that there was, at firft light, the 
outward appearance of an internal inflammation. The 
enlarged part of the colon terminated at the lower end of 
the left kidney, where there was an annular ftriCture on 
the outfide of the gut, and there the gut felt hard and 
flefhy. The enlarged part being flit up, was much in- 
flamed and fuperficially ulcerated on the inlide, and 
more in proportion towards the low'er end. At the ftric- 
ture there was but a very linall paflage left, winding ir- 
regularly through an inch and an half of hard ulcerated 
gut. Below this, where the colon pafies over the pfoas 
and iliac veflels, it was in its natural ftate ; but the reCtum 
had been at fome former time very much difeafed, and 
for a finger’s length to within two inches- of the anus 
was contracted to almoft a goofe-quill fize, and of a livid 
colour ». The lower, two -inches were not- fo much con- 
tracted,. 
