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found, from the quantity of them protruded, together 
with their great inflation, that a larger or more extended 
preffure than my own hands could afford me was ne- 
ceffary; and not thinking it prudent to employ any 
of the by-flanders in fo hazardous a talk, left by 
their inexperience they might handle the bowels 
too roughly, I fent for two of my fellow- labourers in 
the care of the Radcliffe Infirmary, to my afliftance. 
As foon as they came, the reduction was again at- 
tempted ; one of us directing that portion of the bowel 
which was laft protruded, while the two others 
made a gentle, regular, and circumfcribed preffure 
from all ftdes towards the opening. But this endeavour 
not fucceeding, convinced us, that it would be much 
fafer to enlarge the wound, to facilitate the return of the 
prolapfed parts, than hazard the ncceflity of handling 
them too much, or expoftng them too long to the ex- 
ternal air, either of which would, in all probability, 
have proved fatal. This being done accordingly, by 
continuing the wound in the fame direction upwards 
about two inches, the expofed bowels were eafily and 
foon returned into the abdomen . We then brought the 
edges of the wound together, and kept them by the 
future called gafiroraphia , leaving a proper opening in 
the moft depending part of it for the difcharge of the 
blood or matter which might be colle&ed in the cavity ; 
and afterwards it was dreffed in the ufual way, lightly 
and almoft fuperftcially, with an anodyne poultice over all. 
