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am also of opinion, that that exceeding number of small particles, which I dis- 

 covered in them, and which I took for animnlcula, are merely the parts put into 

 a violent motion. 



^n Account of what appeared on opening the Body of Mr. St. John, who died of 

 an Asthma, July the 2d, 1705, aged 72. By the late Mr. William Coivper, 

 F. R. S. N° 336, p. 534. 



It was remarkable, before the body was removed from the bed, whereon it 

 lay some hours after death, that the blister in the neck had discharged not less 

 than a quart or 3 pints of serum, before I began the dissection. 



In the abdomen there was a small quantity of water, such as is usual in those 

 who die of chronical diseases. The parts here were in a natural state, excepting 

 the kidneys, of which the right was very much contracted, even to a third part 

 of its natural size, and had two large hydatides, or bladders of clear water, on 

 its surface. The left kidney was also lessened, but not so much as the right ; 

 its surface was also unequal, but had no hydatides on it. The ureter of this 

 left kidney was very much contorted, at its rise from the pelvis, where its sides 

 were petrified; insomuch that its canal was rendered almost impervious for the 

 passage of the urine. 



Nothing was found in the bladder of urine but divers stones of unusual 

 figures, as if they had been pieces of a large stone broken to bits, in the centre 

 of which a nucleus had been lodged. The gall-bladder was filled with gall- 

 stones. 



The stomach, which he complained of, i. e. in want of appetite, was no 

 otherwise disordered ; but a little redder, having more blood in its vessels than 

 is usual ; its muscular fibres being stronger than generally on the stomachs of 

 healthful persons. 



The cavity of the thorax, or chest, was filled with water on both sides, so 

 that the lungs were not above a third part of their natural magnitude. The 

 pleura, or membrane that lines the two cavities of the thorax, was very much 

 thickened by the serum of water; from whence it descended by the muscles of 

 the back into his legs. The valves of the left ventricle of the heart were petri- 

 fied in several places, especially those called mitrales. Some stony bodies were 

 found on the bronchia, at and near their rise from the lungs. 



Concerning large Stones voided per Urethram. By Mr. Ra. Thoreshy, F. R. S, 



N« 336, p. 536. 



One Joshua Spurrit, on the Quarry Hill, near Leeds, having been long af- 

 flicted with the stone, voided 3 stones, which are of a great size to pass the 

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