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no otlier is of such Consequence to Life, or stands in competitionwith it,

tht*utn?* by A poor Mtn (a Taylor by Trade) has been ili by times this 4

Mr. Rob. Clark. Years, but for ; Years lastpast has frequently Cough’d upsbmething ofthe"• 13 s-1- 779 • Similitude expreti in the Ftgure. He Coughs them up aster a continu’dj. Coughing of almost half a Day or Night, and knows when they come, atthe hrst feeling great Pains rcund his Chest; he has voided Hundreds ofthem, and all alike, though tome are a great deal bigger, and mary lesithan the Description. They don’t seem, he säith, to have Life; but hehas pressed a Slimineß out of the Body, and so through that part whichseems to be the Head. This had a great many more Fibrils towards thelatrer end than 1 expreti, and seem’d to be very Nervous. He is now veryMeager, and complains of great Pains about his Chest and Back-part an-swerable to it.

^y vr-i.ya.et. 2 . These are Figured in the remoter and deeper Branches os th c Aspera' ' 7 Arteria: And therefore so difficult to gtt up. They are nothing elfe but

the viscous Excrerions of the finali Glands, hard bak’d in those Molds,whosc Form they receive ; and may, it' we strain a Metaphor, be calPdFolypm’s of the Lungs »

ji Polypus of 3. A Boy of 5 Years old dy’d at Kenfmgton of a Consumptio». A- Yeartl Buifetc. l ?>. ^ ore f> e dy’d he was troubltd with a dry Cough, which continu’d everiCj. p. sv- sir.ee, (pitting now and then a little quantity of Blood; 1 o ori i Days before

hedy'd, his Nursc took notice of lome thick Skin, as the seid, hefpit out.HisPhysician having examined one of them, found it had the Consistenceand Shape of a Veste), which made him think it might perhaps be someVestel of the Lungs. The Child being dead, I open’d the Body, andfound the Omentum quite destitute ofFat; so were likewise ali the parts ofthe Body ; the Glanduls of the Mesenterium were hardned and blackifli. Inthe Lest fide of the Lungs I found a little Purulent Sanies: The inside ofthe Trachea Arteria was Incrustated with a flimy Membrane, which I tookoft from the Trachea and the Branches in the Lungs , insomuch that that Fel-licula made a perfect Vestel from the Larynx to the very Extremitiesof theBronchies , of which it came off very easily without breaking either the9 - Trunk cr the Branches, just as you see it in the Ftgure. Itadhered to theinward Coat of the Trachea only by some small Filaments, which were sotender that they broke off easily, which made me think the productionof that extraordinary Vestel was nothing but the Mucilaginous Humour,which is continually diseharg’d by the Glandules of the Trachea, whichbeing grown moreclammy by the Distemper was redue’d to a kind of Jellyby the dryness of the Air, which drynels not permitting the Spkting irour, incrustated the inside of the Trachea and Bronchies, and growing thickerwas at last thaven off by the violent Fit of Coughing the Child was some-times taken wich, and then was renew’d again by the socceeding Mucus.Tnis new Vestel would not diffblve in hot Waterj The Veflels of theLungs, that is, the Trachea and Bronchks, the Pulmonarj Arterie s andVeinswere as whole as could be. This