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opened, all the cavity was bloody, and the 

 vefTels were large and turgid with dark-co- 

 loured blood. No bowel was now feen ; all 

 that appeared in view being a great number 

 of irregular flefhy lumps, which were blad- 

 ders 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 interme- 

 diate iizes between thefe. Upon a ftridler 

 examination, thefe velicles 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 raifed, the bowels ap- 

 peared 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 im- 

 menfely diftended. 3. The right ovarium 

 was as big as the head of a new-born 

 child. It contained a vifcid white-co- 

 loured fubftance refembling maflied brains, 

 which run together like fuet when put in- 

 to water. In this ftuff I found the bones 



herewith fent. 



The 



