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from the whole, that the sickness among the cattle was a malignant pestilential 

 fever, killing almost all those that were infected with it. 



The immediate cause of this he takes to be a praeternatural thickness of the 

 blood, occasioned by a beginning coagulation of those parts which constitute 

 the crassamentum ; by which the globules of the blood and the particles of the 

 serum were imprisoned in a sort of reticulum, formed by the union of the fibres 

 of the blood. 



The occasional cause of this sickness he deduces from the cold and wetness 

 of the season, which prevailed all the preceding year, from October 17 10 to 

 November 171 I. Which observation is worthy of remark, since the season 

 preceding the mortality among the cattle here in England was remarkably dry, 

 and yet the symptoms of the distemper agreed with those observed in Italy, as 

 may appear from the account given by the learned Mr. Bates, surgeon to his 

 majesty's household, in the Phil. Trans. N°358. 



Account of a Case in which a portion of the Colon was propendent from a 

 luound of the Abdomen for 14 Years. Communicated by Abr. Vater,* Phil, 

 et Med. Doct. Professor of Anatomy, &c. at JVittemberg. N° 366, p. 89. 

 Translated from, the Latin. 



George Deppe, of Halberstadt, aged 34, in consequence of a wound re- 

 ceived in the left hypochondrium, in the battle of Ramillies, in 1706, has ever 

 since (viz. for 14 years) had a large portion of the colon, a span in length, 

 hanging out of the abdomen. The wounded and protruded intestine is in- 

 verted ; and being united in the middle, it exhibits 2 orifices, the upper orifice 



* Abr. Vater was born in l684 at Wittemberg, in which university his father Christian Vater held 

 a professorship, and was dean of the faculty. After taking his degree of M, D. the son, author of 

 the above communication, travelled through various parts of Germany, as well as into Holland and 

 the Netherlands} from whence he passed over to England, where he became acquainted with 

 Hauksbee, Sir Hans Sloane, and other distinguished members of the R. S. of which he was some 

 years after elected a member. On revisiting Holland, he formed an intimate friendship with Ruysch, 

 under whom he perfected himself in anatomy, and particularly in the art of making injected pre- 

 parations. He returned to Wittemberg in 1711, after an absence of 2 years. Here, in course of 

 time, he was appointed successively to the professorships of medicine, anatomy, botany, &c. He 

 died in 1744. Dr. Abraham Vater contributed, in no small degree, to the progress of anatomical 

 and pathological knowledge in his native country, not only by his lectures and valuable collection of 

 injected and other preparations ; but further by various tracts and dissertations which he at different 

 times published. After his death there was found among his papers a description, illustrated by 

 engravings, of his anatomical cabinet, which was edited with a preface by Heister, under the title of 

 Abr. Vateri Museum Anatomicum Proprium, 4to. 1750. 



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