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104- inches in its greatest circumference, 13 along its greater, and 44- 

 along its lesser curve. The omentum was thin and irregularly puck- 

 ered together. At about 5 inches frora the anus commenced a group 

 of thickly crowded mucous foliicles, occupying a space of 4 inches 

 in length. The anus was furnished with two glands, ofthesize each 

 of a nutmeg, and containing a fluid of the consistence and colour of 

 liquid honey, and of a most intolerable odour : the orifice or duct 

 of these glands opened just vvithin the verge of the anus. 



" The liver was tripartite, the middle portion being divided 

 into one large and one small lobe : on the under side of the large 

 lobe, in a deep furrovv, vvas situated the gall-bladder, of a moderate 

 size, and somewhat elongated form. The biliary secretion entered 

 the duodenum H inch below the pyloms. 



" The pancreas vvas long, flat and narrovv ; beginning in a curved 

 form near the pylorus, and follovving the course of the duodenum for 

 about 4 inches. 



" The spleen was loosely attached to the stomach, tongue-shaped, 

 and in length 6 inches. 



" The lungs consisted of three right and two left lobes. The 

 heart was of an obtuse figure; it measured in length 1-į-inch, and 

 in breadth ] inch. The primary branches of the aorta were as fol- 

 low : Ist, a right branch, or arteria innominata, which, running 

 for \ inch, gavę ofFthe two carotids and the right subclavian j 2ndly, 

 a left branch, passing to form the right subclavian. 



" The epiglottis vvas acuminate, and in close approximation to 

 the tongue, which was tolerably smooth, with a crescent of distinct 

 fossulate papilta at its base. The os hyoides was united by a suc- 

 cession offour bones on each side to the skull. 



" The kidneys were of an oval form, the right being half its length 

 higher than the left j the length of each was 1-^inch. The tubuli 

 entered the pelvis of the kidney by a single large conical papilla. 

 The suprarenal glands were small. 



" The testes were each as large as a small nutmeg ; the cremaster 

 musele, embracing the spermatic cord as it emerges from the ring, 

 was very distinct. The penis had been injured in removing the skin 

 of the animal ; its length from the pubes was about 84- inches, and 

 its museles were very distinct. It contained, as in the Dog, a slender 

 bone, If inch long, commencing pretty stout, then narrowing as it 

 proceeded till near the apex, when it suddenly bent at an obtuse 

 angle, giving oft'at this part two small processes. The distance of 

 the prostate from the bladder was I4- inch. 



" Themorbid appearances consisted in extensive adhesions of the 

 abdomlnal viscera, indicative of great inflammation. The lobes of 

 the liver adhered to each other, to the parietės of the abdomen and 

 to the stomach. At the distance of 10 inches from the anus there 

 was an extensive intus-susceptio, a portion of intestine above that 

 part (measuring, when withdrawn, 8 inches,) being received into the 

 part below, to which it slightly adhered. The strangulated portion 

 was puckered up so as to take up a space of only 34- inches. The 

 stomach exhibited duU red patches of inflammation, and was full of 

 indigested food," 



