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any time before, and his Ikin was open. The water he 
had made was turbid, though foil high-coloured. The 
wound, indeed, made but an indifferent appearance ; the 
edges of it were very lloughy, particularly the tendons 
of the oblique mulcle, and fo far receded from each other 
as to make it neceffarv to divide the remaining: fotches. 
The lower part of the wound, or that next to the ilium , 
was beginning to digeft, and the inflammation and ten- 
lion of the belly to abate. The opening draughts, made 
a little warmer, were continued, which kept the bowels 
conftantly and gently open. In the evening his pulfe 
was rather increafed; and 1 found that, 1'ome time in the 
afternoon, he had brought up a little more bile, though 
without any previous complaining. After drefling, I 
directed more blood to be drawn, and the opiate to be 
repeated. 
2 d, The nurfe acquainted me this morning, that 
her patient had had a very quiet night, and had llept 
many hours without intermillion; that he had taken a 
fufflcient quantity of nourilhment, and that it had fat 
well on his ftomach. I found him chearful, without any 
complaint, except that of hunger. His pulfe was Heady, 
his Ikin foft and open, his tongue getting cleaner, and 
his water beginning to break. The difcharge, this morn- 
ing, from the fore was exceedingly offenfive; and when 
. I had taken off the drefling, 1 was really aftonifhed at 
the horrid appearance ! The wound was burlt open, 
in fuch a manner as to affume a circular form, and was 
rather more than three inches in the leaff diameter of 
it. 
