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it. In the bale of this dreadful opening, there was 
nothing to be feen but the circumvolutions of the 
lmall guts ; and how this amazing breach was to be re- 
ftoied, 1 could not eafily conceive. Had any one taken 
a view of the wound at this time, who was unac- 
quainted v, ith the real progrefs ol it, he muft naturally 
have concluded, there had been a great lofs of fubftance. 
h he patient was drefled with thin pledgets of very fine 
unfoimed lint, moiifened with the oil of the flowers of 
the hyper icum luke-warm, laid firffc upon the expofcd 
bowels; afterwards the cavity was filled up lightly with 
the fame fort 01 lint dry ; the edges were covered with a 
model ately warm digeftive, and the whole fecured with 
the uniting bandage; which bandage had been ufed 
from the very beginning, to prevent, as much as art 
could prevent, the impending mifchief. 
3d, Appearances this morning were very favourable; 
he had ilept well molt part of the night; his pulfe was 
perfectly quiet, and his fldn moderately open. The water 
was become better coloured, and had made a fair fepara- 
tion; fo that, from this time, all figns of fever, inflam- 
mation, and pain its concomitant, intirely ceafed : nor 
did there even arife any alarming, or even difagreeable 
fymptom afterwards; but every thing went on in an 
eafy, regular way. The wound digefted kindly, and was 
conftantly drefled twice a day, as the quantity, and indeed 
the quality, of the difcharge from it required. The 
opening medicines were repeated occafionally, and his 
nights fecured by a few drops of the Theban tindure. 
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