A Letter from the Reverend Mr. James Field, Rector of St. Johns in Antegoa, concerningTwo Cases of Wounds in the Stomach, to Mr. John Douglas, Surgeon, F. R. S.Author(s): James FieldSource: Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 32 (1722 - 1723), pp. 78-79Published by: The Royal SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/103578 .

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(78 ) <;. <;. two suclin'd planes, for the Men to {talld on,

eic. when they put in, or take out Planks or water [& Sand.

h.h The bottom of the Seove, made of lron. i. i. The Grates to lay the Fewel on.

Vl. A Letter fkom the !tiel>erend Mr. James Field, fRveAor of St.Johns in Antegoa, concerntng two CaJes of Wolds in the StomachX to Mr. John Douglas, Sgrgeon, F. -R. S.

S/RX H E Accidents of whicll you de&re me eo

_ glve you an account, ̂ rere as follows. A ILl(ly young Negro man returning home about

Noon, went inro his Eloufe, where feeing fome ripe Plantains, 11e eat of th}em heartlly ; his Father in LawX about 60 Years of age) coming to the (ame HouSe Soon-afier, etlquired of the young Fellow, wllo had taken 11is [']anrains. Wbo anfsered, That he being hungry*7had eaten them. Ay, -you Dog, fays the old Fellow, have you ferved me fo, l kept them for my own Dinner; and witllout more ado, took his Knire, nd gave the young Fellow a moft defperate UVound in the upper Region of tlle Belly, a vaR GaXh being n?aJe in tlle Sromach, in fo much rhat the- PlanZ tain. sxhich he lsad eaten, burA cllrougll the VVound. wh;h ra) made Areight up and down.

(78 ) <;. <;. two suclin'd planes, for the Men to {talld on,

eic. when they put in, or take out Planks or water [& Sand.

h.h The bottom of the Seove, made of lron. i. i. The Grates to lay the Fewel on.

Vl. A Letter fkom the !tiel>erend Mr. James Field, fRveAor of St.Johns in Antegoa, concerntng two CaJes of Wolds in the StomachX to Mr. John Douglas, Sgrgeon, F. -R. S.

S/RX H E Accidents of whicll you de&re me eo

_ glve you an account, ̂ rere as follows. A ILl(ly young Negro man returning home about

Noon, went inro his Eloufe, where feeing fome ripe Plantains, 11e eat of th}em heartlly ; his Father in LawX about 60 Years of age) coming to the (ame HouSe Soon-afier, etlquired of the young Fellow, wllo had taken 11is [']anrains. Wbo anfsered, That he being hungry*7had eaten them. Ay, -you Dog, fays the old Fellow, have you ferved me fo, l kept them for my own Dinner; and witllout more ado, took his Knire, nd gave the young Fellow a moft defperate UVound in the upper Region of tlle Belly, a vaR GaXh being n?aJe in tlle Sromach, in fo much rhat the- PlanZ tain. sxhich he lsad eaten, burA cllrougll the VVound. wh;h ra) made Areight up and down.

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( 79) The old Man immediarely fled for ic, tile young

Fellows Cotnpanions hearin-g vvhat was dones purfued the old Man with Bills in t.heir Hands: tlle old Man fieeing them f6Jlow him in this manner9 and get ground of hims and fufpeEting their Defigtl swas tO

kill him, pull'd outthe fiame KnHef 7ith wllich he had llabb'd the other, and gave hitufUlf as defiperaro a Woalnd, as he had given himt and itl tlle upper Regon of the Bellyfl his Stsmach Sing likewite feen only with tllis Viffesence, that this lait WounLl u7as tran{'

verfe, or from left to tigllt, the &rft direEly up and down; the old Fellow was carried home and laid in the fame HouSe, wtlzere the othcr wounded rellow lay.

This Accident happen'd about INtoon. and MrX Aor- re/i tl?e Surgeon came not ro drefs them tStl between four and five; he Ilitch'd up the Stonlachs of tllem botll entirelyb and tletr Bcllies too. only lea:7ing in each a fmall hole for Suppuration ; a Fever feized eacll of them, the old lMan was in moft dangerf tl:e Fever held tllem about a Fortnight tlle \vollnds were brougllt to a good Digeftion, and in a Montlls time or there- aboul:s, tt young FelloxY went abroad, but the old Man lay femething Iongers Thay were botll perfed ly cured, and have bect3 ̂ 7ery wWll ever fince, tllO'

its abo:re &fteen Years Gnce - this Accident happexaXd.

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