590 ANATOMICAL EXAMINATION 



married as a widow in his hundred-and-twentieth year, did 

 not deny that he had intercourse with her after the manner of 

 other husbands with their wives, nor until about twelve years 

 back had he ceased to embrace her frequently. 



The chest was broad and ample; the lungs, nowise fungous, 

 adhered, especially on the right side, by fibrous bands to the 

 ribs. They were much loaded with blood, as we find them in 

 cases of peripneumony, so that until the blood was squeezed 

 out they looked rather blackish. Shortly before his death I 

 had observed that the face was livid, and he suffered from dif- 

 ficult breathing and orthopnoea. This was the reason why the 

 axillee and chest continued to retain their heat long after his 

 death : this and other signs that present themselves in cases 

 of death from suffocation were observed in the body. 



"We judged, indeed, that he had died suffocated, through in- 

 ability to breathe, and this view was confirmed by all the phy- 

 sicians present, and reported to the King. "When the blood 

 was expressed, and the lungs were wiped, their substance was 

 beheld of a white and almost milky hue. 



The heart was large, and thick, and fibrous, and contained 

 a considerable quantity of adhering fat, both in its circum- 

 ference and over its septum. The blood in the heart, of a 

 black colour, was dilute, and scarcely coagulated ; in the right 

 ventricle alone some small clots were discovered. 



In raising the sternum, the cartilages of the ribs were not 

 found harder or converted into bone in any greater degree than 

 they are in ordinary men ; on the contrary, they were soft and 

 flexible. 



The intestines were perfectly sound, fleshy., and strong, and 

 so was the stomach : the small intestines presented several 

 constrictions, like rings, and were muscular. "Whence it 

 came that, by day or night, observing no rules or regular 

 times for eating, he was ready to discuss any kind of eatable 

 that was at hand; his ordinary diet consisting of sub-rancid 

 cheese, and milk in every form, coarse and hard bread, and 

 small drink, generally sour whey. On this sorry fare, but 

 living in his home, free from care, did this poor man attain to 

 such length of days. He even ate something about midnight 

 shortly before his death. 



The kidneys were bedded in fat, and in themselves suffi- 



