6 1 a Dr. hunter and Mr. watson’s Account 
that great tendernefs and opprefiive pain which the 
doctor felt from the leaft preflure on the fternum, or 
upon any part of the breaft near it. 
The principal feat of the difeafe which proved fo te- 
dious, and in the end fo fatal, was, no doubt, confined to 
the colon only % and it was entirely within the gut. The 
part firft affe£ted muft have been that portion of the 
canal in which we obferved the moft mifchief. The fu- 
perficial extent of the difeafe over fo large a furface as 
the whole arch of the colon, and the more formidable 
appearance of it, in only a few inches of the fame gut, 
diftinguiihed the part where the difeafe firft began, and 
where it muft have had its longeft duration. 
The caufe of all this mifchief was conje<£tural with. 
Dr. maty himfelf. Had it arifen, as he fufpefted, from 
having bruifed his fide with the hilt of his fword, we 
then fhould have found the gut injured from without 
inwards. But is it not moft likely,, that a little bit of 
bone, the ftone of fruit, fome fharp or hard body, in 
palling, had injured the gut fo much, as to lay a founda- 
tion for all the growing corhplaints ? Nearly the fame 
appearances have been obferved in the oefophagus from 
only a hard cruft of bread lodging for a time in the paf- 
fege i which, after being forced down,, was fucceeded by 
gyeat forenefs,, inflammation, ulceration,, and at length 
e fo 
