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were not of such a nature as to give rise to any suspicion of their 

 existence in its body, neither did the post-mortem examination, 

 as might have been expected, reveal anything of inflammation or 

 its effects upon the serous membrane in which they lay, nor did 

 death result from their presence, so that we are presented with 

 the singular spectacle of an animal harbouring such apparently 

 formidable enemies to its personal comfort, and these again 

 perilously situated as to the life of the animal, without offering 

 any symptom in particular to indicate their presence, much less 

 their actual locality. 



