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and in about fifteen minutes from the time 

 pf her firft feizurc, expired. 



Some little time before her death, a re- 

 markable appearance was obferved in the 

 carotid artery, through which the blood 

 feemed to be very feebly pumped up in large 

 globules, and not in a continued column, 

 which feems to prove, that by the violence 

 of the convulfions, the blood had been 

 forced out of the arterial fyftem into the , 

 veins 3 and from the difficulty with which 

 it circulated through the lungs, there was 

 not a fufficient quantity tranfmitted into 

 the left auricle of the heart to continue the 

 circulation: hence death was the confe- 

 quence. 



Dissection. 



Upon opening the abdomen, a ftrong 

 fmell of laurel water was perceptible. The 

 colon was not altered from its ufual appear- 

 ance; but the fmall inteflines appeared of a 

 purple colour, and their veins much diftended 

 with blood. The ftomach contained fome 

 bay, mixt with the laurel water. Its inter- 

 nal 



