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The omentum, on the stomachs and guts, was 6 inches thick at the top, 

 and decreasing gradually, was nearly 1 inches thick at the vent, and was divided 

 into two parts in the middle from the top to the bottom. The basis of the os 

 hyoides is of this figure (K, and the round part at the top is lodged in a pro- 

 per cavity in the top of the tongue. Partly under the basis of the os hyoides, 

 lies a cartilage, in the front and very beginning of the aspera arteria, which is 

 not unlike the thyro'ides; but it has no other cartilages in that part besides what 

 forms the rimula. The first 28 cartilages of the aspera arteria are not annular; 

 the rest, being about '226, are entirely annular, but as soon as it divaricates to 

 go into the lungs, they are not so again. 



An Account of a Person killed bij Lightning at Worcester. Bij R. Beard, M.D. 

 F. R.S. N°394, p. 118. 



We had June 10, 1724, continued lightning in the east from 8 o'clock to 

 12, the weather for some time before having been very sultry, the wind at N.E. 

 and the barometer at settled fair. This morning the mercury sunk, and the 

 sky became more cloudy and temperate, except a few hot gleams ; at 2 in the 

 afternoon, several hard showers fell, attended with flashes of lightning and 

 claps of thunder, that still approached nearer us; between 2 and 3, a flash 

 came so violently, succeeded so very quick by a low, unusual, dreadful sound, 

 that Dr, B. immediately went to the door, fearing some mischief near. He 

 was soon called to an officer's lady, aged about 18, and breeding, killed by it 

 in the adjoining street. He found her yet warm, and that she had survived the 

 stroke for 6 or 7 minutes. The fire marks were streaks of a copper colour, 

 branched from the left shoulder all over the thorax, and interspersed here and 

 there with irregular spots. This sad accident happened in a parlour window 

 next the street, that could contain about two persons; the lady, it seems ter- 

 rified with the repeated lightning and thunder, it having formerly been fatal to 

 her brother, desired an officer to change places with her, that she might be 

 near her husband; but she was no sooner seated by his side, than she inclined 

 sideways, and spoke some words ; after she was carried to another room, she 

 said, she was gone, and then, that she was blind, and asked for water. The 

 husband was thrown along, together with the fortunate gentleman that had 

 just resigned his seat, and a large looking-glass was lifted oft" the hooks. The 

 landlord's daughter, at work near the lady, perceived such an impulse on the 

 side of her head, that her hearing was much impaired, and upon every peal of 

 thunder since, she is affected in like maimer, though not so strongly. The 

 gentlemen complained that they were stupified, forced down they did not know 



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