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o^ the Colon, as very much to lefTcn the diameter of that gut j 
the ftomich and Imall guts were fomewhat diftcnded with 
wind :, the former appeared very loofe, as if its proper tone 
was much relaxed ^ the 'Pancreas appeared a little hardened^ 
the left fpermatic vein was much diftended, between the kid- 
ney and the Ovarium, the upper part of that vein being com- 
prefled by the fuperincumbency of the lower part ot that 
kidney; infomuch that the trunk of this fpermatic vein was 
very much lefTened, immediately before it enters into the left 
cmulgent vein; in difentangling this difeafed kidney from its 
many adhcfions to the neighbouring parts, its external mem- 
brane happened to burft in two or three places, whence iftued 
a large quantity of grumous blood ; this kidney weighed five 
pounds, and the other but five ounces, which was of a common 
fize, andno waysdifordered; by the diftenfion of the mem- 
branous parts of the kidney itfelf, its veins were in a great 
meafure compreiTed 5 its Ureter was become large by the 
intumefcence or thickening of its fides, whereby its cavity was 
ftraitned; in a divifion made by cutting into the body of this 
fwelled kidney, its infide appeared like that of a fcirrhous or 
boiled liver. Mr. Coni'per found two or three large cells, 
filled with grumous blood, which proceeded from a rupture of 
fome blood-veffels before death, which Mr. Co-zvper was_apt to 
think might alarm the patient with the appreheniions of fome 
weight falling down, as (he expreffed it. In rhe Vagina Uteri, 
near the Meatus urinarius, there was an ulcerous appearance, 
attended with a mortification; the left Tfoas mufcle was very 
much lefTened by the comprefTion of the lower part of that 
kidney; and the nerves, diftributed to fome parts of the thigh, 
which pafs thro' that mufcle, were expoied to view. 
No diforder appeared on the "fhora^, but what is commonly 
obferved after death in all chronical difeafes; viz. a 'Polypus in 
each ventricle of the heart, and great blood- vefiels; and 
Mr. Co'-Jiper commonly oblerved "Polypi m the right ventricle 
and the vems, elpecially the Vena Cava and right auricle, the 
latter of which he found completely diftended with ^Polypus, 
or coagulation of Serum in the body of a boy, who died ot ^ 
Hydrops thoracis ; in which cafe, he found the fy mptoms of 
fighing and difficulty of refpiration never to fail; and he thinks 
the flow return of the blood by the veins, is the immediate 
caufe of the coagulation of the lerous part of the blood, wnich 
frames thefe bodies, which from the figure, they acquire from 
the parts they are lodged m, are called Polypi; hence it is 
