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In proceeding to examine and dissect the present specimen, 

 which was effected in the presence of several medical and scien- 

 tific friends of the author, the integuments and muscles of the 

 abdomen were first removed, and the contents of that cavity care- 

 fully inspected: they consisted of a portion of the stomach, adhering 

 to the diaphragm ; the spleen, attached to the super-renal capsule 

 of the left kidney ; and the left kidney itself with the ureter de- 

 scending into the bladder, which, with the uterus and its append- 

 ages were observed in sitUy the latter exhibiting marks of dis- 

 ease. Fragments only of the intestinal canal were discoverable, 

 and there were a few lumps of resin, and of a mixture of clay and 

 bitumen, and a few pieces of myrrh. The right kidney, the 

 liver, and the minor glands were missing ; but the gall-bladder 

 was detected among the loose fragments of membranes and other 

 soft parts, together with remains of its own ducts. The soft parts 

 of the pelvis were then particularly examined, and the perfect 

 condition of the muscles, membranes, and ligaments, particularly 

 noted. The cavity of the thorax was next examined, by detach- 

 ing the diaphragm, to which part of the pericardium adhered ; 

 and the heart in a very contracted state was afterwards found 

 suspended by its vessels and attached to the lungs, which adhered 

 to the ribs. 



Upon the examination of the cranium, it was evident that the 

 brain had been removed through the nostrils, from the lacerated 

 condition of the inner nasal bones; the eyes appeared not to have 

 been disturbed, the tongue was entire, and the teeth were white 

 and perfect. 



Dr. Granville next proceeded to draw some conclusions as i6 

 the age at which this mummied female died, and respecting the 

 disease which destroyed her. The bones of the ilium exhibit 

 that peculiar thinness of their osseous plates, which shew the in- 

 dividual to have exceeded her fortieth year, and to have borne 

 children ; and as there are no characters of age or of decrepitude 

 about the skeleton, the author considers her to have been about 

 fifty. The ovarium and broad ligament of the right side were 

 enveloped in a mass of diseased structure, while the fallopian 

 tube of the same side was sound, but the uterus itself was larger 



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