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dejected ; but afterwards he began to grow ill, and an unusual agitation was 

 manifest about the diaphragm; this was followed by a continual vomiting, and 

 a little after by an evacuation of some hard excrements. By these evacuations 

 he seemed to be somewhat relieved; but he soon grew uneasy, moved from 

 place to place, and vomited again. After this he laid himself down on the 

 ground pretty quietly; but his vomiting returning again, disturbed his rest, and 

 abated his strength, which grew weaker and weaker ; for in the space of an 

 hour he vomited 12 times or more, and sometimes voided some liquid faeces, 

 in small quantity ; having frequent inclinations to go to stool, but in vain, as 

 in a tenesmus. An hour and a half after the operation, he being so weak that 

 he could not stand, his eyes dull, and looking as if he were half dead, we gave 

 him some warm broth through a funnel. With this he was exceedingly re- 

 freshed at once, and soon after could look about, stand on his legs, and walk; 

 but by reason of his weakness, reeled as if he had been drunk. We left him 

 alone in a warm room, where he remained cold, and lay as if he had been 

 dying; and in an hour after, we forced him to take some more broth, which 

 revived him again : but in a little time, after some agitation of his body, he 

 vomited, made urine very plentifully, howled miserably, and died convulsed. 

 Next day, in viewing his viscera, we found two things very observable, but 

 neither of them occasioned by the liquor injected ; one in the heart, the other 

 in the oesophagus. In the heart there were two polypuses: that which possessed 

 the right ventricle, stretched itself into the vena cava and pulmonary artery; 

 and that in the left ventricle, sent branches into the adjoining vessels, and was 

 less than that in the right ventricle. The substance of the polypus was pretty 

 firm, of a flesh colour, somewhat pellucid, and, being cut through the middle, 

 was altogether of the same colour and consistence as on the surface. To the 

 oesophagus there grew a remarkable gland, which was hard, callous and foul, 

 and opened with a small, round, fleshy orifice, into the inside of the stomach, 

 where, on pressing it, a little purulent matter came forth. On opening this 

 gland or tubercle, we found in it a great many little worms, wrapped and en- 

 tangled together, and moistened with a purulent matter. Some of these worms 

 were above 4 inches long, others less. We found afterwards the like glands, 

 full of worms, in other dogs, and in most we opened, but not so much cor- 

 rupted as in this. W^e observed also the like foul glands in the aorta descen- 

 dens, but in one only found a worm like these, which was almost got out of 

 it, through an orifice, into the cavity of the thorax. After this we likewise 

 observed more polypuses in dogs. 



October the 27th we injected warm into the jugular vein of a dog a drachm 

 and a half of sal ammoniac, dissolved in an ounce and a half of water. The liquor 



