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than a congeries of little bladders, each of them contained in its proper capsula, 

 and filled with a coagulated lymphatic juice. 



The thighs, legs, and feet, were anasarcous to an unusual degree; but the 

 upper parts, as the neck, face, arms, &c. were extremely emaciated. After divid- 

 ing the peritonaeum, the first thing that should have occurred is the omentum ; 

 yet in this body it was really and absolutely wasted away. The intestines did not 

 appear vitiated any other ways than in their colour, which was somewhat pallid, 

 and indeed the internals for the most part, as the ventricle, pancreas, liver, 

 spleen, kidneys, &c. looked all of them like flesh half boiled, and the blood 

 absorbed. The intestines were all of them distended with flatus, particularly 

 the caecum, to a very considerable degree. In the 2 lowermost of the great 

 ones, viz. the colon and rectum, some of the excrements were contracted like 

 little balls, &c. The liver, which by some is adjudged to be particularly and 

 principally affected in this disorder, was not more faulty than the rest of the 

 bowels. The spleen adhered to the peritonaeum ; its colour and appearance 

 resembled that of the other bowels, except that it was somewhat more livid. 



On dissecting the kidneys we discovered nothing, either in the carunculae 

 papillares, or infundibulum, that could be any impediment to the secretion of 

 the serum sanguinis, in case an attempt had been made upon those parts by a 

 crisis. The bladder was empty, and did not seem capable of any great disten- 

 sion. At its upper end, a little inclining to the left side of the rectum, I per- 

 ceived the uterus, almost 3 inches in length, and about 2 in breadth, which 

 seemed to be nothing but a little carnous substance. The stomach contained 

 nothing but wind, with which, like a blown bladder, it would return after the 

 least impression. The diaphragm was forcibly impelled upwards into the chest, 

 so that its dilatation must needs be very obscurely assistant to respiration ; it was 

 indeed so far contracted, that its convex part bore hard against the lobes of the 

 lungs, whose substance was much decayed, and looked like par-boiled flesh. 

 On cutting open the heart it did not yield the least drop of water or blood more 

 than the rest of the bowels ; even the liver itself, which has been by some 

 accounted the store-house of the bloody mass, was destitute of so much as 

 might be thought necessary for its own proper nourishment, and yet its salino- 

 sulphureous particles, which constitute the gall, were deposited into the vesica 

 bilaria, to the quantity of about a spoonful. 



jin Account of an uncommon Case of Dropsy within the Tunics of the Uterus. 



By Mr. Turner. N° 207, p. 20. 



A woman aged 44 and upwards, some time after she was married, had con- 

 ceived, as she thought, by some supposed symptoms of pregnancy ; and in 



