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none to be found ; for tlie whole meseraic membrane and intestines lay per- 

 fect\y loose upon the heart and lungs, absolutely disengaged from any maimer of 

 communication with any oti.erpart. 



That vermicular motion, which showed itself on the ribs and breast, we 

 ascribed to the peristaltic motion of the guts ; and the dyspnoea, or difficulty of 

 breathing, we thought might be occasioned by tlie pressure made on the lungs 

 by the intestines and mesentery, which so filled the thorax, that there wanted 

 room for the lobes of the lungs to move freely in, and consequently inspiration 

 and expiration would be performed with difficulty. See fig. 12, pi. 15, where 

 a shows the foramen through which the vena cava passed ; b the foramen 

 through which the gula descended ; and c the foramen through which part of 

 the rectum and duodenum went into the thorax. 



Gobsill, whose case was noticed in the Transactions, N° 253, came lately to 

 me, and told me the stones grew very troublesome to him ; that lie had vomited 

 up two of them, which I weighed, and found one weighed 2 drachms, and the 

 other 1 drachm 2 scruples and a half; he complains, that his strength is of late 

 much impaired ; that he voids great quantities of blood by stool, which keeps 

 him very weak. His appetite is much impaired, and will retain but few things. 

 His hands are paralytic, always extremely cold, and his fingers contracted ; he 

 is not able to open them without help, or keep them so, unless by force. His 

 legs are very likely in a short time to be as useless to him as his hands ; for he 

 says they begin to fail him, and in the same manner grow cold, and have little 

 sensation in them. But the most remarkable of all his complaints was, a new 

 progress the stones had either found or made. Formerly at night in bed, they 

 used to get up, as he expressed it, to his heart, and upon turning to his knees, 

 or standing upright on his feet, they would drop one by one so distinctly, that 

 they might be counted, and in this state they always arose straight up on the 

 right side of his breast ; but now they rise obliquely, and get under his right 

 arm, inclining towards the scapula, and when they are in this place, by giving 

 him a blow with the fist on his right shoulder, they will all fall down in a lump 

 together, and may very plainly be heard to clash on the other stones, which lie 

 as they did formerly just above the os pubis. After he had told me this story, 

 I made the experiment before Dr. Fowke and Dr. Davies, and the matter 

 proved true as he related it. 



Some Experiments made for transmitting a Blue-coloured Liquor into the Lacteals. 

 By Dr. fVm. Musgrave, F. R. S. N° 275, p. Qg6. 



Feb. 1 682-3 I injected into the jejunum of a dog, that had had but little food 

 for a day before, about 12 ounces of a solution of indigo in fountain water ; and 



