4o6 M E M O I R S cf the 
liquor was thin pale and infipid, of which there was taken out 5 
quarts 5 the T)ura Mater was firm and entire, of its ufual thick- 
nefs, and it ftuck very dole to the bony as well as membranous 
parts of the Crarif urn y all its procefles and finus's were fingular^ 
the fourth finus fomewhat larger than ordinary 5 a very large 
vein of the ^J)ura Mater entered the longitudinal Slfins^ dire£tly 
forwards towards the Crifta Gallic contrary to the courle of the 
blood 5 the ^ia Mater was very much diftended, and feemed to 
be flretched as much as it could bear; it lay fmooth and equal 
upon the furface of the brain, there being neither any circumvolu- 
tions in the brain for it to go between, nor any partition to the 
Corpus callofur/jy tho' there was a large Fah in the 2)ura 
Mater ; the lateral venticles were very thin, their upper 
part towards the Cerebellum was quite wafted, io that 
nothing was left to cover the cavity in that place but the 
l^ia Mater 'j this was lb thin, that in bending down the head to 
empty the water, it broke and hindered the knowing exa611y, 
how much water the lateral venticles contained ; but by their ca- 
vity which was very large, one might guels they held at leaft a 
pint each ; the third and fourth venticles had a little water in 
them, but were fcarcely larger than uliial, as Stem obferved in his 
hydrocephalous calf; the brain had, all its parts plain and entire, 
tho' its llibitance in moll places was but very thin andloofe; 
about the Corpora fir iett a thalaml nervorum opkorwn it was 
tolerably thick and firm enough, tho' nothing to what it is in a 
natural ftate ; the Cerebrum and Cerebellum^ when laid out in 
their proper pofition, were 11 inches long; the Cerebrum Qva{s 
the lateral ventricles, was nine inches broad ; after all the water 
was taken out, both of them weighed i y lb. The Corpora ftri- 
eta ^ thalami nervorum opticorurn. were very fmall in all their 
dimenfions ; on the infide tov^ards the ventricles they were 
wrinkled, and lay in folds, like thole in the inner coat of the 
llomach ; in the Corpora firiata there were no Stride dilcernible; 
the Tlexus Choroides was very fmall, the Glandula ^inealis 
was lomewhat larger, but lefs compact than ordinary ; the Nates 
were very red and large ; two inches long, one broad, and one 
thick ; the defies were not diftinguifhed from them by any pro- 
tuberance ; they leemed rather to be a produ£^ion, into which the 
Nates leflened by degrees, like a lugar-loaf ; the Cerebellum was 
very firm every where, and did not much exceed its natural 
bulk; the medullary trunk which fends out thole little branches 
like trees, was thicker and harder than ufual ; the branches 
were not fo much difpofed like thofe of a tree, but went ra- 
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