2o8 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS^ 



year's (landing, and was of the fame lai" 

 mellated flrudure. Beyond this, there 

 ■was a much larger quantity of blood 

 flightly cloated j and this, with the blood, 

 ■which, as obferved before, was diffufed 

 on the furface of the tumour, and in the 

 reft of the cellular membrane near it, 

 feemed to have burft from the vefJel, jurt 

 before the death of the patient, and in- 

 deed to have occafioned it. The whole- 

 quantity contained in the cyft, and difFu- 

 fed around it, exceeded a pint. The -a- 

 orta was not dilated about the aperture ; 

 but its coats at that place w'ere harder 

 than natural, as if tending to offify } and, 

 having loft their natural elafticity and 

 toughnefs, were eafily pulled afunder. 



Th e heart and lungs were in a natu- 

 ral ftate. The former was v^ithout any 

 polypous concretion, and the latter with- 

 out any tubercles or adhefions, except in 

 the right fide, where the lower part of th^ 

 lobe adhered flightly to the diaphragm ; 

 and, about that part, we found in the- 

 lungs a few fmall concretions of no coa- 

 fequence. 



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