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walking ; yet he was always temperate. — He was often troubled with a dread of 

 insanity. In his latter years his appetite inclined to canine, and he had great 

 thirst. — He often complained of pain in his bowels. — Was fond of having his 

 head rubbed. — Of late years, he voided his urine and stools involuntarily. Hung 

 his head, which was very hot, in a prone sleeping posture. He' sweat much 

 every night. — For a long time before his death, he appeared to be in a state 

 of fatuity. 



He died of a fever, Nov. 4, 1686. On opening the body, the liver was found 

 pretty well coloured and firm : — the spleen firm and good, but shrivelled ; — the 

 stomach firm, large, and strong ; — the intestines all well coloured ; — the omen- 

 tum whole, but ill coloured; — the pancreas very firm and good; — the-mesentery 

 well enough ; — the right kidney sound, with a few small stones ; — the left kidney 

 two parts of three wasted, with some coarse gravel, but both kidneys very fat ; 

 — the gall-bladder filled with one stone only, and that no larger than a long 

 nutmeg ; — the urinary-bladder sound, but some little coarse gravel and small 

 stones in it ; — the middle venter being opened, the lungs were well enough, 

 only by the stagnation of blood discoloured, and filled in several places with 

 ichorous spumy matter; — the heart strong and vigorous; — the. pericardium very 

 thin, and too tender, and too little water in it ; very little blood in the ven- 

 tricles ; no adhesion of the lungs to his ribs ; the auricles of his heart perfectly 

 sound and strong. 



On opening the head, the dura mater appeared extremely hard, thin and white, 

 a slender embroidery of vessels ;— the pia mater all full of seeming turgid glands, 

 and a great distention of lymphae-ducts, full of coagulated lympha ; — the sub- 

 stance of the brain loose and shrunk, very white, very little of the cineritious 

 colour to be seen ; — the corpus callosum very flaccid, more than ordinary ; — 

 the whole body of the brain was shrunk about a third part ; — between the two 

 meninges of the brain, was near a pint of extravasated serum, which must 

 needs oppress the brain very much : — the ventricles of the brain full of serum ; 

 — the plexus choroides extremely large, in length as well as breadth and thick- 

 ness ; — the nates and testes very small, and shrunk ; — the thalami nervorum 

 opticorum plump and fair ; — the corpora striata large and fair, being full of 

 large strias ; — the glandula pinealis firm and fair, well coloured, of the exact 

 figure, and ordinary size : it felt harder than ordinary ; and in it was found a 

 stone in a film, or rather a petrified gland in a film ; which stone was taken 

 out and kept as a great rarity; — the glandula pituitaria was half wasted; the 

 part left was very hard and brittle, not having the tone of a true gland, nor 

 substance, unless of a vitiated gland ; — the cerebellum seemed well enough, 

 and all down the cauda medullee oblongatae; — the other parts of the brain had 

 nothing remarkable. 



