or blind-gut. See Anatomy Index.

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