428 Mr. nourse’s Cafe 
was exceedingly low, quick, and interrupted; his /kin was 
all over cold and clammy, and he laboured under great 
languor, anxiety, and pain about th Qpracordia. He like- 
wife complained of a difagreeable tingling and numbnefs 
of the whole thigh, leg, and foot, of the lide wounded; 
and acquainted me, that he dropped on the floor in con- 
fequence of the inability of the limb to fupport him, and 
not from any faintnefs, as might have been reafonably 
expected from the lofs of blood, or through fear, to 
which, indeed, he feemed an utter ftranger. I ordered 
him to be conveyed to his bed in an horizontal poffcure, 
left the railing of the body might encourage a farther 
defcent of the parts which ftill remained in the abdomen ; 
and a fomentation of port wine with warm water to be got 
ready immediately, out of which a double flannel fhould 
be wrung, and applied directly to the prolapfed in- 
teftines, and renewed occaftonally, to prevent them from 
getting too dry, as well as to preferve, as much as pofli- 
ble, their natural heat. The reduction of the dif- 
placed bowels was begun with laying the patient’s legs 
over an afliftant’s fhoulders, who was defired to kneel 
"upon the bed for that purpofe, with his back towards 
him, and then the legs were brought forward as far as to 
the hams. By this means the lower parts of the body 
were elevated, and, in confequence, the weight of the 
bowels falling back towards the cheft, counter- 
acted their further protrufion. While the patient conti- 
nued in this pofttion, I endeavoured, with my hands, to 
force the guts back into their proper place; but foon 
4 found, 
