2o8 Anatomical Examination 



he had married as a widow in his hundred-and-twentieth 

 year, did not deny that he had intercourse with her 

 after the manner of other husbands with their wives, 

 nor until about twelve years back had he ceased to 

 embrace her frequently. 



The chest was broad and ample ; the lungs, nowise 

 fungous, adhered, especially on the right side, by 

 fibrous bands to the ribs. They were much loaded 

 with blood, as we find them in cases of peripneumony, 

 so that until the blood was squeezed out they looked 

 rather blackish. Shortly before his death I had ob- 

 served that the face was livid, and he suffered from 

 difficult breathing and orthopncea. This was the reason 

 why the axillse and chest continued to retain their heat 

 long after his death : this and other signs that present 

 themselves in cases of death from suffocation were 

 observed in the body. 



We judged, indeed, that he had died suffocated, 

 through inability to breathe, and this view was confirmed 

 by all the physicians present, and reported to the King. 

 When the blood was expressed, and the lungs were 

 wiped, their substance was beheld of a white and 

 almost milky hue. 



The heart was large, and thick, and fibrous, and 

 contained a considerable quantity of adhering fat, both 

 in its circumference and over its septum. The blood 

 in the heart, of a black colour, was dilute, and scarcely 

 coagulated ; in the right ventricle alone some small 

 clots were discovered. 



In raising the sternum, the cartilages of the ribs were 

 not found harder or converted into bone in any greater 

 degree than they are in ordinary men ; on the contrary, 

 they were soft and flexible. 



The intestines were perfectly sound, fleshy, and 

 strong, and so was the stomach : the small intestines 

 presented several constrictions, like rings, and were 

 muscular. Whence it came that, by day or night, 

 observing no rules or regular times for eating, he was 



