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sured me, that (he feit him stirring an Hour before, and indeed the goodcondition of his Body sufficiently provcs that he was alive. The Skull wasunequal, and the Skin thereof, thoughfull ofHair, a little rcdder than therest of the Body. The Coronalis Bone laid flat upon the Sphanoides Bone,which wade the Eyes look as if they had been placed in the top of the Fore-head. The Squamosa part of the Temporal Bones was wanting, there be-ing but the Or Petrosum which was in its natural place, and in which werethe Organs of the Sense of Hearing in very good order. There was no Pa-rietal Bones, nor any thing cquivalenr. Of the Occipttal Bone there was butthe Basis which joymth to the Sphanoides, in the middle whereof was thegreat Hole through which the Medulla Oblongata commonly pafleth, all theupper part of this Bone bring wanting, without any mark of having beencorroded or gnawn, the edges of which were very fmooth. All the upperpart of the Bonesof the Skull being wanting, the Skin had no other supportbut its Basis» which was thereason why the Top of the Head was very un*equaland rough. No Brain at all was found, nor any matk in the wholeextentos the Skull, that there had been any, there being no space lest be-tween the Basis of the Skull and the Skin to contain it ; there Was no DuraMater neither, the Bones being covered only with a very thin Membrane.

Neither the Carotides, nor the Vertebral Arteriös did penetrate the Skull, butby small Twigs, spread in the thin Membrane. The Beginning of the Me-dulla Spinalis was under the ep'txVertebra, like a small stumpwrap’d up inthe Dura Mater ; the Medulla was very sound, arid of the usual bigness;and all the Nervei, which parted front it, were in tbeir Natural order. TheEyes were well (haped, and all the parts belonging to them in tbeir Naturalsituation: but all the Nerves did terminate themselves in the Holes of theSkull, through which they commonly pass; they did rcach no Further, norhad any Contmunicarion with any other. TheTongue was veryfrtflt, anddoubtlefshad perlormed the Deglutition to make the tihild swallow the Colli—quamentum, of which there was a goed quantity in the Sromach. TheLarynx, and all the parts of the Throa', were as the reif of the Body in a goodCondition.

6. Dec. iz. 168 8. Iwasdesired tobepresent at the OpeningofMr. A. ntm >sr^reAbout 2 Months before He had reccivedin a Qrarrela great Bruise on hisHead. Alter forne time he took his Bed, and complained of a most violent “i h

Pain in his Head. He sometimes Vomited; sometimes was in Convulßons ■sometimes in the Day he wculd have a great Stupor upon him ; and when hewaked he would be Delirous. His Swallowing was difficulr, and he wouldgrin his Teeth : His Eye-fight afterwards failcd him, and he lost his Me-mory ; and upon the least Motion of his Body would faint away, and in thewhole course of his Distemper was Feverilh. Upon opening his Head, I ob-lerved theBlood Vefsels of the Adeninges very rnuch extended, and the great-tst part of die lest H mtfpbere or side of the Q-rebrum or Brain to be per*fectly rotttn or Sphacelated, not having the lealt Consistency, butPurulentand soft: Norcould I distinguifli the Midullary Subftance Irom the Citiert-,ceous-, but all of a dark reddi lh Colour. In the Ventricles of the Brain 1

E 2 observed