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common integuments, especially towards the 
forehead, where it extended over the root of the 
nose. The colour of this substance was a dark 
reddish brown, and upon examining it more par- 
ticularly I thought I could perceive the division 
of the two hemispheres of the brain and likewise 
the division of the cerebrum from the cerebellum. 
T gently raised with my fingers a part of it, which 
projected over the integuments, which made the child 
cry and produced a considerable starting, semilar to 
what is occasioned by an electric shock. The child 
was full grown and seemed in perfect health, her 
limbs were plump, firm and well proportioned, 
and she moved them with apparent agility. The 
external organs of sense were also perfect. She 
swallowed well and took a sufficient quantity of 
nourishment for several days, but sometimes during 
the action of swallowing started a little. She lived 
till five o’clock on Sunday morning, June the 
ist, when she expired. Some time before her 
‘death, she was affected with slight convulsions. 
During the three or four days, preceding her 
death, there was a constant discharge of a thin 
watery fluid, somewhat tinged with blood, from 
the excrescence, which greatly diminished its 
bulk, for at her death it was only about half the 
‘size of what it had been, when she was born, and _ 
the surface was in some places beginning to put 
09 an appearance of mortification,” 
