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of reddish water. 12. The liquor in the pericardium was very ahundant, and 

 of a greenish hue. 13. The right lobe of the lungs was tied to the membrane 

 of the thorax, covering the upper part of that cavity ; but the left lobe was 

 free from any adhesion. 14. In the left ventricle I found a large polypus, or 

 serous concretion, of a round figure, a white colour, and of a pretty hard 

 consistence, with several long roots of a red colour, which extended through 

 the auricle and bulb of the pulmonary vein, into its nearest divarications in 

 the lungs. 



Having carried home this large bag, with the uterus appendant, cut off below 

 the orifice of the meatus urinarius, and viewed it at leisure, I observed, 1. That 

 the right spermatic vein, which opens into the cava a little below the emulgent, 

 was three times larger than the left; and from a little above the ovarium it was 

 continued, without any division to its termination. 2. The right ovarium was 

 in a very natural state. The cicatrix or caruncula, whence the fecundated 

 ovulum had dropped, was yet remaining., and the blood vessels were ramified 

 upon this testis, in a very beautiful manner. 3. The tuba Fallopiana, and its 

 fimbriae, were all in a natural state. 4. The diameter of the left spermatic 

 vein, which opens into the emulgent of that side, was much less than ordinary. 

 And from the extraordinary narrowness of the bore of this vessel, we may 

 assign a probable cause of this watery swelling; for the blood being hereby 

 hindered in its reflux to the heart, a great deal of serum or lympha, by reason 

 of its slow return, must needs be thrown off upon the ovarium, already indis- 

 posed, whence the gradual increase of the tumor proceeded. 5. The two sper- 

 matic arteries were contorted, and full of turnings and windings, from their 

 meeting with the veins to the ovaria and tubae. 6. A little below the kidneys 

 each artery sent out a branch, which was lost in the peritonaeum and the fatty 

 membrane of the kidney: and from the same places, the veins received two 

 considerable branches. 7' One of the arteries went off by a narrow orifice 

 from the side of the aorta; and the other rose up from its middle, a little below 

 the first. 8. Between the bag and the uterus all these were much dilated, 

 making several turnings and circumvolutions on the peritonaeum, called in this 

 place the ligamentum latum uteri. Q. The left tuba Fallopiana was only re- 

 markable in its being much longer and larger than usual. 



10. In the bag, which was nothing but the membrane called dartos, which 

 covers all the vesicular glands of which the ovarium is composed, I observed 

 several little bladders of different sizes, distinct from one another, which con- 

 tained a limpid or clear slimy serum, in colour and consistence like a mucilage 

 of the semen cydoniorum; and these were either hydatidal tumors only, or the 

 ova themselves distended. This liquor hardened by a slow heat into the con- 



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