130 GUT 
Gothland : twenty-two miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Nord- 
kipping. 
GUT, f. \_kuttUin , Germ.] The long pipe reaching 
with many convolutions from the ftomach to the vent. 
•—The inteftines or guts may be inflamed by any acrid or 
poifonous fubftance taken inwardly. Arbuthnot.— The fto¬ 
mach; the receptacle of food : proverbially : 
With falfe weights their fervan'ts’ guts tliey cheat, 
And pinch their own to cover the deceit. Dryden. 
Gluttony; love of g'ormandizing: 
Apicius, thou didft on thy guts beftow 
Full ninety millions'; yet, when this was fpent, 
Ten millions (till remain’d to thee; which thou. 
Fearing to flifter third; and famifitment, 
In poifon’d potiondrank’ft. Hakewill. 
To GUT, v. a. To evifcerate; to draw; to exente- 
rate.—The fifiiermen fave the mod part of their fifii : 
fome ar e gutted, fplitted, powdered, and dried. Careiu .— 
To plunder of their contents : 
In Nero’s arbitrary time, 
When virtue was a guilt, and wealth a crime, 
A troop of cut-throat guards were fent to feize 
The rich men’s goods, and gut their palaces. Dryden. 
GUT-TIE, f. a dangerous difeafe to which oxen and 
male calves are rendered liable by kn improper mode 
of caftration. In many places the breeders of cattle, 
when they caftrate their calves, open the fcrotum, take 
hold of the tefticles with .their teeth, and tear them out 
with violence ; by which means all the connecting vef- 
iels are ruptured. The vafa deferentia, entering by the 
holes of the tranfverfe and oblique mufcles into the ab- 
„domen, pafs over the ureters in acute angles ; at which 
turning, by their great length and elaftic force, the pe¬ 
ritoneum is ruptured ; the vafa deferentia are fevered from 
the tefticles, and, fpringing back, form a kind of bow 
from the urethra, where they are united, over the ure¬ 
ters, to the tranfverfe and oblique mufcles, and there 
again unite where they firft entered the abdomen ; the 
part of the gut that is tied is the jejunum, at its turning 
from the left fide to the right, and again from the right 
to the left, forming right angles under the kidney, and 
attached to the duplicate of the peritoneum, to which 
it was united, where the rupture happened. There 
the bow of the gut hangs over the bow of the vafa defe¬ 
rentia, which, by a hidden motion or turn of the.beaft, 
forma hitch or tie of the firing round the-bow of the 
gut (filled with air,) fimilar to what a carter makes on 
his cart line. This caufes a ftoppage in the bow,els, 
and brings on a mortification, which, in two days, -or 
four at mod, proves fatal. And to this accident is the 
beaft, when caftrated as above, liable from the day that 
he was caftrated till the time of his being flaughtered. 
The fyrnptoms of the gut-tie are the fame as thole of 
an incurable colic, volvulus, or mortification of the bowels. 
The beaft afteCted with this complaint will kick at its 
belly, lie down, and'groan ; it has alfo a total ftoppage 
in its bowels, (except blood and mucus, which it will 
void in large quantities,) and a violent fever, &c. To 
diftinguiih with certainty the gut-tie from the colic, the 
hand and arm of the operator mull be oiled, and intro¬ 
duced .into the anus, through the reCtum, beyond the 
os pubis, turning the hand down to the tranfverfe and 
oblique mufcles, where the veflels of the tefticles enter 
the abdomen. There the firing will be found united to 
the mufcles, and is eafily traced to the ftridure by the 
hand, without pain to the be'Sft. 
From the general view of the agriculture of the coun¬ 
ty of Hereford, drawn up by Mr. Clark of Builth, Bre- 
conlhire, we learn that .Mr. Harris, farmer at Wickton, 
near Leominfter, had been uncommonly fuccefsful in 
the cure of the gut-tie. That gentleman informs us, 
that he had cut cattle for this difeafe from the age.of 
three months to that of nine years ; and, as it is a matter 
GUT 
of great importance, we {hall ftate his method of Ope- 
rating in his own words. 
“The only method of cure (fays he) that can be fafe- 
ly ventured upon is, to make a perpendicular incifion, 
four inches under the third vertebra of the loins, on the 
left fide, over the paunch or ftomach', and introduce the 
arm to find the part affeCted ; if poflible keep the beaft 
{landing by the help of proper afiiftants. The knife I 
make ufe of to fever the firing is in the form of a large 
fifti-hook, with an edge on the concave fide.; it is fixed 
to a ring, which fits the middle finger, which finger 
crooks round the back of the knife, the end of the thumb 
being placed on its edge. The inftrument, by being 
thus held in tlfe hand, is fecured from wounding the 
furrounding inteftines ; with it I divide the firing or 
firings, and bring out one or both, as cirCumftances re¬ 
quire. Here it is to be obferved, that great care mu ft 
be taken by the operator not to wound or divide the 
ureters, which would be certain death. I then few up 
the divided lips "‘of the peritoneum very clofe, with a 
furgeon’s needle threaded with ftrohg thread, eight or 
ten double, fufficieptly waxed ; I alio few up the {kin, 
leaving a vacancy at the top and bottom of the wound 
fufficiently wide to introduce a tent of furgeon’s tow, 
fpread with common' digeftive and traumatic balfam ; 
covering the incifion with a plafter made of the whites 
of eggs and wheat flour. The wound, thus treated, 
and drefled every day, will be well in a fortnight. The 
medicine I give to remove the ftoppage in the three fto- 
machs occafioned by the tie, and to carry oft' the fever, 
is four ounces of Glauber’s Fait, two ounces of cream of 
tartar, and one ounce of fena, infufed in two pounds of 
boiling water, adding half a pound' of olive-oil, and 
working it off with plenty of gruel, mixed with a large- 
quantity of infufpm of mallows and elder-bark.- I ad- 
minifter the gruel and infufion for at leaft two or three 
days; by which time the beaft will be well, will eat 
his provender, and chew the cud, and will for ever be 
relieved, and remain fafe from this fatal diforder. 
“ The following Ample and eafy method of caftration 
will effectually prevent the gut-tie. Open the fcrotum, 
loofen out the tefticles, and tie the feveral veflels with 
a waxed thread or filk; or fear them with a hot iron, 
to prevent their bleeding, as in the common way of cut¬ 
ting colts. This method can never difplace the veflels 
of the tefticles, bladder, kidneys, or inteftines.; all of 
which remain covered or attached to the peritoneum; 
or lining of the abdomen of the beaft, which renders 
it impoflible that there Ihould ever be a ftridture or tie 
on the gut.” 
GU'TA, a town of Hungary, in the ifland of Schit, 
near the conflux of the Waag and the Danube, feven 
miles north from Comorn, and thirty fouth-eaft from. 
Freiburg. 
GU'TENTAG, or Do'brooieu, a town of Silefia,. 
in the principality of Oppeln. 
GU'TENZELL, or Gut'tenzell, a ciftertian ab¬ 
bey of Germany, in the circle of Swabia, founded in 
1240, whofe abbefswas a princefs oT-tiie empire, and had 
a feat on the imperial bench. The Roman month was 
ten florins; and the tax thirteen rix-dollars forty-fix 
kruitzers: twelve miles fouth of Ulm, and ten eaft of 
Biberach. 
GU'TERA, a town of Sicily, in thp valley of Ma- 
zara : twenty miles north.of Girgenti. 
GU'THALUS, or Gut'talus, in ancient geogra¬ 
phy, fuppofed to be the Viadrus of Ptolemy. Now 
the 0 ,der ; which rifing in Moravia, runs through Sile¬ 
fia, Brandenburg, and Pomerania, into the Baltic. . 
GUTHLAC, St. [of 311^, Sax. war,and lac, a victim,! 
q. d. one facrificed of train in the wars.] An Englilh 
Saxonmonk, in honour of whom Athelbald, king oi the. 
Mercii, built the ftately abbey of Crowland in Lincoln- 
Ihire. 
GUTHRE'MION, [of gwrfck, C. Br. approach,.and 
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