158 Dissection of a Remarkable Tumor. 



lessened, that it afforded matter of surprize how the 

 blood could return to the heart with even tolerable faci- 

 lity, particularly during the act of vomiting. The tu- 

 mor was glandular, and appeared to be one of the bron- 

 chial glands preternaturally enlarged. It was solid in the 

 centre, but, on cutting into each end, a small quantity 

 of matter was found, resembling pus. Several of the 

 neighbouring glands were more or less in a state of en- 

 largement, and appeared to be fast hastening on to 

 commence their work of mischief, in case the large one 

 just described had not been competent to the business 

 of closing life. 



We have here the evident cause of this poor infant's 

 sufferings and death; and the reason why respiration 

 was performed with so much difficulty is easily ac- 

 counted for, when we advert to the pressure, and its 

 consequent effect in lessening the passage into the lungs. 

 The child's face becoming dark, while under the ac- 

 tion of emetics, may, with equal justness, be referred to 

 the pressure on the cava, and thereby impeding the 

 blood in its progress back to the heart. The case ap- 

 pears to me an interesting one, and, perhaps, not unde- 

 serving a place in the note-books of pathologists, to 

 whom I cheerfully resign the task of accounting for a 

 phenomenon both curious and interesting. 



It may not be improper to add, that the parents of 

 the infant, particularly the mother, appear very heal- 

 thy ; and the father, had he any predisposition to a mor- 

 bid condition of the lungs, would long since have had 

 it brought into action, as he follows digging wells, and 



