COECUM, or blind-gut. See Anatomy, p. 93.

Dr Mufgrave gives us an account, in the Philosophical Transactions, of the cecum of a dog being cut out without any prejudice to the animal. Mr Giles gives us another of the cecum of a lady being distended, so as to form a tumor that held almost three chopes of a thin, greyish, almost liquid substance, of which she died. And Mr Knowler a third, of a boy's cecum being vastly extended and stuffed with cherry-stones, which likewise proved mortal.