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found that the patient had not died in conse-
quence of the operation, but in consequence
of a portion of the intestinal canal being stran-
gulated within another hernial tumour. " Cau-
lam mortis non in hoc loco, nec in notabili
inflammatione intestinali inveniens, denique
ansam intestmi ilei satis magnam, in sacco ab
extenso peritonaeo singulari modo efFormato
inclusam detexi, Peritonaeum nempe sub liga-
mento lato smistro versus superiora ad musculi
Psoas traclum saccum formabat, in quo intesti-
ni pars gangrsena corrept a ad angulum acutum
ressexa continebatur, quse reslexio viam intesti-
ralis cavi praecluderat."
Mr Hey has given a very full history of a
case in which there were two hernial sacs, but
which were very differently situated; which I
{hall also insert,
" In January 1796, I was defired to virlt
Mrs Brooke of Hare wood, whom I had some
years ago cured of a strangulated semoral her-
nia by the operation, and who now laboured
under the same disease on the opposite side.
The