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nay, till the time that his body came to be very full, he could work at the 

 plough, or such like husband labour. 



Alt. Cowpers Note on the foregoing Letter. — It is not improbable, if the 

 abdomen of this person had been opened, but some of its contents would have 

 • been found not unlike those I have mentioned, in my explication of the 34th 

 table of prints published by Dr. Bidloo, where I take notice of a young gentle- 

 woman I dissected, in whom I observed the omentum so lessened, that at first 

 it appeared doubtful if that part had ever been existent in the subject; but, on 

 strict examination, the little remains of it resembled a congeries of small glan- 

 dules, stuffed with a suet like matter. The whole canal of the intestines, even 

 from the pylorus to the anus, was distended with faeces, and the surfaces of all 

 the small guts adhered so strictly to each other, that they could not be parted 

 without tearing their external membrane, to which the omentum contributed 

 by its adhesion: the whole compages of the intestines very much resembled 

 that of the external surface of the brain covered with the pia mater; so that 

 the mesentery in that subject could not be seen, till this external inclosure was 

 divided. By this disorder, it is certain, that the peristaltic motion of the guts 

 must needs be very much lessened, if not quite hindered. The peritonaeum 

 also in that case was very much thickened, and had several preternatural white 

 bodies set at various distances on its internal surface; the like appeared on. the 

 stomach, which very much resembled in figure the miliary glands on the back 

 part of the aspera arteria. 



A Letter from A. Mesaporiti of Genoa to A. f^allisneri,* Professor of Physic 

 at Padua, concerning a Hemorrhage from almost every Part of the Body ; 

 also concerning a Pain of the Bowels occasioned by a Cartilaginous Thickening 

 and Coalescence of the Intestines. Extracted from the Latin, N'^ 303, 

 p. 2114. 



A young lady, aged 18, who had enjoyed good health before, was troubled 

 with haemorrhages from various parts of the body, and at length with transuda- 

 tions of blood through the pores of the skin. She was first seized on the Qth 

 ' of April with a spitting of blood, accompanied with pleuritic symptoms, for 



• Dr. Antony Vallisneri or Vallisnieri, celebrated for bis observations in Natural History, wa» 

 born l66l, at Trebilico, in the duchy of Modena, and studied at Bologna under Malpighi. Some 

 years after taking his degree of M. D. he was appointed professor of physic at Padua : he was 

 electexi a member of the R. S. of London, and of various other learned and scientific associations. 

 He died in 1730, aged 69' He bestowed considerable attention on the generation of insects and 

 worms, and other subjects of natural history and physiology. His works amount to 3 vols, folio. 



