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red, and had a more crais Hypoftafis) it was plainly leen, that 
this whole bulk of water was luftained between the Cutis and 
''Teritonceum, whereby there was made fo great a compreffion of 
the inteftines, and other Vifcera to the Vertebrae of the loins 
and Os Sacrum, that it is furprifing how there could be any pro- 
trufion of the excrements, fince by the abovelaid compreffion the 
periftaltic motion muft be very flow, if any at all ; and lecondly, 
the Mufcidi RetU of the AbdoraeJU which are laid to be lubler- 
vient to that neceffary excretion, were not only at a very confide- 
rable diftance, but even quite obliterated, or at leaft not diflin- 
guifliable from the ^anniculus CarnofuSy or common integument 
of the body 5 when at the fame time the outward covering or 
Ci'tis itfclf, notwithftanding lb extraordinary a dilatation, was 
full as thick as in a found body, and in Ibme places much thicker 5 
particularly in the hypogaflric region, where rhe Membrana 
^dipofd was oblerved to be above two inches thick, and leemed 
to be no other than a congeries of little bladders, each contained 
in its proper Capfula^ and fluffed with a coagulated lymphatic 
juice ; One would have thought that the blood in the abdominal 
veflels had been ftagnated for ibme time before, or at leafl that 
its circulation was vitiated 5 for one might oblerve in feveral places 
it was extravafated, and that it adhered in great clots to the mem- 
branes: The patient's thighs, legs, and feet were anafarccus, and 
fo extremely bloated with a watry humour, that one could bury 
three or four fingers in them ^ and yet her uppir pans, as the 
neck, face, arms, and hands were lo much emaciated, that fhe 
icemed like a fceleton : After dividing the ^PeritO}iieiim, the firfl 
thing that fliould have offered itlelf, is the caul, yet in this fub- 
je6} it was fo entirely wafted, that the leaft trace thereof did not 
remain; the inteftines were not fenfibly altered in any other 
refpe£l: than in their colour, which was fomewhat pale, as if they 
had been leeihed 5 and indeed, the bowels for the moft part, as 
the ftom.ach, Pancreas, liver, fplcen, kidneys, ^^c. had the 
appearance of flcfli half boiled, and their blood abforbed; for tho' 
none of them did iwim in, or communicate with the Scrum., yet 
the nearnefs of the iuperincumbent liquids had polluted and tinged 
the external coats of the Vifiera with their preternatural as well 
as putrefactive heat: The inteftines were all of them diftendcd 
with p/t'i/^^'s, particularly the Ccccumto a coniulerable degree; 
in the CoIoj: and Return the excrements were formed into little 
balls, and fo hard as to take any impreffion; the liver, which 
isfaid to be principally affe^fted in this difteraper, was no more 
faulty than the reft of the bowels 3 the whole body of the fpleen 
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