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ting w!th Severai others, entered the liver ; all the veins proceeding 

 from the viscera along the mesentery vvere very large and full of 

 dark blood. 



" The tongue was thick and fleshy, about an inch in length and 

 two-thirds in breadth, vvhite in coloiir, and covered thickly with 

 elongated papilio: ; the tip was lounded, the base heart-shaped. 

 Between the gloitis and base of the tongue so siight a distance in- 

 tervened, that the larynx might be said to open directly into the 

 naouth, the glottis rising to a point corresponding with and adjusted 

 to the heart-shaped indentation at the base of the tongue. This 

 elevated apex is divided dovvnvvards and a little way longitudinally 

 by the rimą. The l<>rynx is supported posteriorly by the os hyoides, 

 which is broad, flat, and pointed with double barbs, resembling 

 some double-barbed arrow heads : it is hovvever coinposed of three 

 bones, viz. a body, and two long curved bones united by cartilages 

 to it, the body itself ending in t\vo long cartilaginous processes ; 

 where the osseous processes arise there is also on each side a small 

 cartilaginous projection. An inch below the rimą the travhea divides 

 into two branches, or bronchice, which run dovvn for a little way on 

 each side of the neck, but shortly, in consequence of the bend of the 

 neck, almost at the back of it, and describing in their course a large 

 sigraoid inflexion, they then subdivide and iinmediately enter the 

 lungs. About half an inch below the great division astrong musele 

 of two or three lines in breadth passes across, arising from the ver- 

 tebrce of the neck on one side and united to the šame on the oppo- 

 site, thus acting as a constridor on the two tubes, and being doubt- 

 less of use in the deglutition of air. The length of the trachea and 

 the great branches to the lungs was 7į inches ; the rings were per- 

 fect. The subdivisions of the bronchicB before entering the lungs are 

 surrounded closely by numerous yeUow glands." 



