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8th. Louise Bel ingere, 20 years of age, having a bubo in each fold of the 

 groin, died very suddenly, without any dangerous symptoms. We found in 

 her body, the heart all covered with a livid purple, much larger than natural, 

 filled with thick black blood, having a polypus in each ventricle : the lungs 

 were in their natural state : the liver of a prodigious size ; and the gall-bladder 

 full of bile, of a deep green colour. 



9th. One Rampeau, a peasant, about 20 years of age, of a sanguine robust 

 constitution, having had a carbuncular parotid for 8 days, accompanied with a 

 burning fever, was carried to the hospital the 2d of May, where he died on the 

 5th. We found the outer part of the left side of the lungs covered with a livid 

 purple : the heart was double the natural size, having scarcely any blood in the 

 ventricles, their cavities being filled with a large polypus, that on the right side 

 having dilated the auricle to the breadth of 4 inches ; the liver also was larger 

 than ordinary ; and the gall-bladder was full of a black and green bile. 



The following Experiments ivere made at Montpelier, in the Hospital of St. Rloy, 

 during Sept. Oct. and Nov. in company with Mons. Fizes^ M. D, and Messrs. 

 Duli and Morel, Surgeons of the said Hospital. N° 370, p. 28. 



A soldier, between the age of 20 and 25, of a lively temper, being sick in 

 the hospital of St. Eloy of an ordinary malignant fever, died about the 15th 

 day by a defluxion on his breast. His lungs were found very much blown up, 

 filling all the cavity of the breast, and adhering to the pleura. Having remarked 

 that the bile in the gall-bladder was of a bright grass green colour, we reserved 

 it for the following experiments. 



This bile, mingled with 4 oz. of warm water, was part injected into the 

 jugular vein of a dog, and a compress, soaked in the rest of the liquor, was 

 applied to the rest of the wound. The dog soon appeared heavy and sleepy, 

 and would neither eat nor drink ; but the 3d day he eat and drank willingly. 

 The compress falling off the 4th day, the wound was diminished one half, and 

 was healed by degrees, and the dog became perfectly well. 



Exper. 8. — A peasant, of about 50 or 60 years old, of a melancholy tem- 

 perament, had been near a month in the hospital with an ordinary malignant 

 fever, being alternately delirious and sleepy. After his death, the bile was 

 found extremely thick, and black as ink, and in great quantity. We put about 

 a drachm in a wound made for that purpose on the outer part of the right 

 thigh of a dog, thrusting in pledgets, dipped in the said bile diluted into the 

 wound. There did not appear any change in the dog. We made him swallow 

 some of the same bile, without losing his appetite : and seeing he was like to 



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