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T he Omentum, or Kell, was wholly and abselately Wasted away; ThdIntestines were only viiiated in their Colour, which was somewhat Pallid, asif they had been Seethed ; Also the Fentricle, Pancreas, Liver, Spleen, Kid -neys, &c. looked all of thtm like Fksti halfBoil’d, and the Bsood Absorbed;For although none of the se Beweis did Swimin, or Communicate with theSeram, being scparated by the aforeseid Membrane, yet the great nearnesiof the superincumbent Liquids had Polluted and Tingcd the fcxternal Coatsofthe Fijcera , with their Pruernatural as well as Purrefactive Pleat.

The Intesttncs were all of them Distended with Flatus’s ; particularly theCacum was blown up toa very considerable bigness. In theCo/tw and Rec-tum some of the Excremcnts were Contracted like little Balls, and as Hardto bear any Impression, through the Coats of the Gut, as a Stone. TheLiver was no moreFaulty than the rest of the Beweis. The whole Body ofthe Spleen adhered to the Peritonaum , but easily to be separated from it.Wc could not diseover in the Kidneys any Impediment, or Let, to the Se-cretion of the Serum Sanguinis, in case any Attempt had been made uponthose Parts by a Crisis. Th eVeßca Urinaria was empty, and of a more thailordinary fmatlneß. The Fentricle was fill’donly with Wind, like to a blowrrBladder,

The Diaphragm was so forcibly impelled upwards into the Chest, thatits Diaflole must needs be very obscurely affillant to Respiration : It was in-deed so far Contracted, that its Convex part bore hard againsl the Lebes ofthe Lungs , whoso Substance, äs I have seen in some that have dy’d Tabid,was very rmich decay’d and peristi’d, and look’d just like Parboil’d Flefh.In cutting open the Heart, I did not pereeive the hast Dröp of Watet tofall from it: By which it may be justly thought that the Pericardium, orCapfule of the Heart, being altogether destitute' of its Refrigerating Liquor,clungimmediately to thepropcrTunick of the Heart it seif; Upon cuttingthrough whose Ventricles, we could not pereeive one Drop ot Blood, nomore than in the rest of the Beweis ; and the Liver it seif was destitute ofso much Blood as might be thought necefiäry for its own proper Nourisli-menr, and yet its Salino-SulphureousParticles which constitute the Gaü, weredeposited into the Vefica Bilana, to the Quantity cf about a Spoonfull. Iobserv’d a very large Protuberance of the Costa and Sternon j which perhapsmight be occasion’d from the Rarified Effluvia of the Waters, pent up wich-Jn the Breast, or rathet a neeeffary Consequence of the Diaphragm' s beingso exeeifively Pressed upwards.

I /hall not take upon rae to determine, Whether the contain’d Liquorhappen’d from any Rupture in the Lalleal or Lymphq'ick Fejsels, accordingto Dr. Willis , or (as more probable to me) if it were not pure Serum (theBlood being distolved into its constituent parts) breaking forth of the littleMouths of the Caliac and other Asteries.

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Ll. In the DilTection of Madam Vaillant by M. Du Linier , the Liver Was“found very White wirhour, but Red enough within ; The Epiploon extreme-ly dry'd; The Stomoch nvueh bigger tlian ordinary • The Winding of the“^“^,.^

Colon, 223, f.

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