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year of his age, I observed the following particulars, relating to the unusual 

 structure and morbid disposition of the parts contained in the cavities of the 

 thorax and abdomen. 1. When the skin with the other integuments were taken 

 off, I observed that part of the omentum had thrust itself through the annular 

 holes of the abdominal muscles on the left side, and there formed an epiplocele, 

 or hernia omentalis, as large as a walnut. 1. The omentum reached as low 

 down as the pubis and inside of the ilia, to which it was tied ; and by fibrous 

 connections it adhered to all the peritonaeum below the navel. 3. All the fat 

 on the omentum and guts was firm, and hard like tallow. 4. The intestines 

 and stomach were quite empty, without either wind or faeces. 5. The left 

 kidney was much larger than ordinary, being near 8 inches long; and its surface 

 was divided into several distinct lobes, as in a foetus. 6. The right kidney was 

 full of a fetid purulent matter : all its inner substance was wholly wasted ; and 

 its external or cortical part was stretched so very thin, that a small touch of the 

 finger could easily break through it. 7' AH the fat and glands about this kidney 

 were hard, obstructed, indurate, and large, which made a great compression 

 on the musculus psoas, and the musculus quadratus lumborum. 8. The ureter 

 proceeding from this right kidney, was covered with a crust or bed of indurate 

 glands ; and besides, its capacity was straitened and contracted in several places, 

 y. The cavity of the vesica urinaria was very small ; its substance so very thick 

 and hard, that I could not even by the help of a blow-pipe distend it any wider: 

 its inside seemed excoriated with several little fleshy caruncles, or red excres- 

 cences, here and there. JO. There was a remarkable corrosion in all the in- 

 side of the urethra. 1 1 . All the upper and convex part of the liver adhered 

 firmly to the peritonaeum that covers the diaphragm, and to the same mem- 

 brane where it covers part of the musculus abdominis transversalis : its sub- 

 stance was so very tender and soft, that it seemed to be almost rotten. 12. The 

 gall-bladder was extremely large and full ; the bilious liquor it contained, being 

 of a whitish yellow colour. 13. Between the tunica vaginalis and albuginea of 

 the left testicle, there was a large hydatical or watery tumour ; and on the last 

 named coat of the same testicle, there were several chalky concretions, each 

 about the size of a barley-corn. 14. In the right auricle of the heart there 

 was a large polypus, that filled up its cavity ; extending itself a great way into 

 the ascending and descending trunks of the vena cava. All the rest of the 

 viscera were as in a natural state. 



The symptoms this person complained of during his illness, as I was in- 

 formed by those who attended him, were, that about a year and half since, he 

 began to decline in health. His first complaints were a heat, sharpness or pain 



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