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rufhed out; and, when the, containing 
parts were fully opened, all the cavity was 
bloody, and the veflels were large and 
turgid with, dark-coloured, blood... . No 
bowel was now. feen ;.all that appeared in 
view» being a great numbet.of.,irregular 
flefhy lumps, which were bladders full, of 
a red watery liquor. Some of them. were 
of the fize of the largeft apples I have 
feen, others were as fmall as pigeon-eggs ; 
and there were of all the intermediate 
fizes between thefe. Upon a ftricter exa- 
mination, thefe veficles were found to be 
all contained in one common cyft, of 
which I had cut the fore-part with the 
teguments of the abdomen. The large 
cyft filled all the belly : When it was ral- 
fed, the bowels appeared in a natural 
ftate; except that, 1. The left Fallopian 
tube was very large. 2. No ovarium of 
that fide could be feen, unlefs the great 
cyft was that ovarium immenfely diftend- 
ed. 3. The right ovarium was as big as 
the head of a new-born child. It contain- 
| ed a vifcid white-coloured fubftance re- 
fembling mathed brains, which run toge- 
the 
