670 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 17 JO. 



4^ iHches below the pylorus ; from whence he traced the ductus communis to 

 the liver, to see the vesicula fellea ; but it was wanting, and instead of it he 

 found the porus biliarius coming out of the liver, as the ductus hepaticus usually 

 does. He observed likewise, that the bile found in that, differed both in colour 

 and consistence from that he found in the ductus hepaticus; for the latter was 

 of a clear light yellow colour, congealed like a jelly, and the former of a dark 

 green, and somewhat more fluid than the gall of an ox. He hopes time will 

 discover such a difference in the galls of most animals, and that discerning men 

 will be excited to find out their uses. 



The pancreas is very long and large; for it reached from about the middle of 

 the stomach to the jejunum, which space could not be less than 6 feet. It was 

 a glandula conglomerata, as the pancreas always is, and had its ductus so wide, 

 that it could easily contain ones little finger. It opened into the gut, where 

 the ductus felleus did. 



The spleen was 34- feet long : on the backside its edge was somewhat curved, 

 almost in shape of an unbended bow: on the fore-side, from a narrow point at 

 each end, it enlarged itself by degrees, till it came towards the middle, where 

 the vessels entered, where it was broadest. It was in breadth from 3 inches 

 toward the extremities, to 8 inches about the middle. 



The glandulae renales were placed after the usual manner : they were about 

 5 inches long, 1 inches broad, and oval, with a loose outer coat, which I re- 

 moved, as it had been a sheath ; within which was contained the gland itself, 

 being divided into several lobes, like the kidney of an ox ; from whose in- 

 terstices there passed several thin membranes, which passing to the loose 

 vagina, kept it fast; and by which this vagina was only coherent with it. 



The kidneys were of a large and proportionable size, being one foot in length 

 and 4- foot in breadth, of the usual figure, much like that of a man ; their ex- 

 ternal surface smooth, and equal with their external coat, closely adherent to 

 the inner substance, without any perspicuous lobes to be seen externally; but 

 when I opened one of them, I perceived 6 large carunculi urinarii. Its sub- 

 stance was very obvious, and correspondent to the structure usually observed in 

 the kidneys ; i. e. the glandulous substance externally was very conspicuous, 

 for the space of about -^ inch in circumference; then began to appear the tubuli 

 urinarii, first smaller and less obvious, then another series larger, and a third 

 still larger, till they began to surround each of the carunculi, like so many rays 

 of the sun. 



In the thorax there was scarcely any thing remarkable. The viscera were large 

 and strong. One of the lobes of the lungs was opened by the butchers, and 

 the other had nothing observable, but its size, which was proportionable enough. 



