S3t PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO l6g5 . 



grown thick and long, as also hair under her arm-pits, and a downiness on her 

 chin, unusual with those of her sex, except in some aged persons. 



About i a year before she died she began to complain of pains, especially on 

 her left side, and voided gravel often by urine, and with pain. Her breath was 

 short, as is usual to fat people, especially when she went up a pair of stairs : 

 yet on that very evening before she died, she walked abroad, was merry and 

 lively, went to bed, and slept as at other times, but after midnight awaked, 

 cried out of a great pain in her side, and said, Mother, I want breath, 1 shall 

 die; and in less than 4 of an hour was quite dead. 



The measures and weight of her body were as follow. Round the breast 

 1 yard and 2 inches, over the hips at the navel 1 yard 5 inches, over the 

 stomach a yard, her height 1 yard wanting an inch, round the thigh 1 foot g 

 inches !., calf of the leg 13 inches, upper part of the arm 14 inches^, the 

 wrist 7 inches, her weight g5lb. She had a face as large and broad as any fat 

 grown woman of 20 years. Her chin and breast were so thick laid with fat, 

 that she was forced to hold up her head, or rather throw it backward, as she 

 walked. These measures were all taken before the dissection. The thickness 

 of the fat on the muscles of the abdomen was 2 inches, and not much less on 

 the sternum: after the fat was removed, the abdomen was still very protuberant 

 and round, and yet the fat contained therein not extraordinary much, neither 

 on the omentum nor mesentery (which was as much as is usually in most fat 

 and grown up persons) these, with the other internal parts, were of the largest 

 size. The guts were all inflamed and thick, the liver large, the left kidney, 

 where was the seat of her misery, exceedingly large, and double the size of that 

 on the right side ; on dissectmg it, there issued out a vast quantity of blood, 

 both from all the vessels of it, and out of its pelvis; and although it was several 

 times sponged from it, yet it came flowing in from theemulgent artery ; a certain 

 argument of a great plenitude in the descending trunk. Here was also some 

 small gravel, which possibly had choked up the ureter, though that was not 

 examined ; but because there was no blood in the bladder I justly make this 

 conjecture. The uterine parts were not larger than in others of her age. The 

 ovaria were large, but smooth and white, without protuberances or show of 

 eggs. The bladder had a purulent matter in it. When the breast was denuded 

 of its fat, it showed no larger tlian of another child of her age. The cavity 

 was totally tilled with the lungs and heart. The heart was natural. But the 

 lungs, besides that they were extended to fill up the whole cavity, were annexed 

 strongly to several parts of the pleura, and had several protuberances as large 

 as nutmegs filled with a pulp like an atheroma, and were in divers places rotten 



