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the ruptures were plastered with excrements, all beset with a prodigious num- 

 ber of globules of tjuicksilver; and when the intestines were disengaged and 

 taken out, the quicksilver fell from them in large drops. The other viscera 

 were in the natural state, except the liver, which was gangrened. 



As Dr. C. was very solicitous about the tumour, he looked into the pelvis, 

 where he found an excrescence of a prodigious size, which filled all its left side. 

 He took the knife, and cleared all round the tumour; when he found the uri- 

 nary bladder close pent up between the anterior part of the tumour and the ossa 

 pubis, which occasioned the strangury the patient had been tormented with ; 

 the rectum, which lay on the middle of the os sacrum, was also vastly pressed 

 on by the tumour, which seemed to take its rise from tlie holes that are in the 

 left side of that bone. The surgeon was so unluckily impatient, that while 

 Dr. C. laid down the knife, in order to separate the ossa pubis with a hatchet, 

 he cut out the tumour. Dr. C. then examined the os sacrum, which was so 

 very soft, that his fingers entered it every where on the left side. 



The tumour was oviform, and was covered over with several membranes: 

 its weight was 2-^lb. ; its longest axis 5 inches and somewhat more than 4, 

 French measure ; its shortest 4^- inches. At first sight Dr. C. took it for a 

 parenchyma, but on dissection he found it analogous to the liver in substance, 

 colour and consistence. Its artery, vein and nerve were very large, and were 

 distributed through its whole substance : wherefore he really took it to be one 

 of the conglobate glands of the pelvis, whose vessels yielding to the blood im- 

 pelled thither with greater force and in larger quantity than usual, on account 

 of the violent exercises of dancing, jumping, &c. which the patient very much 

 practised, gave room to its increase to that enormous size. On opening, he 

 remarked 3 very apparent divisions in it : and where the psoas lay over it, and 

 one of the pyramidales beat on it, it was ossified. He preserved it in brandy, 

 and found that the small vessels, that were most filled with blood, pressed it 

 out into the interstices of the neighbouring ones. 



The weight the patient constantly complained of at his left hip ; the diffi- 

 culty he had in going to stool, and that of thrusting a syringe far enough into 

 the rectum to give him a clyster with any success ; the tumour itself, which was 

 easily felt on putting the finger into the anus; with the palsy of the left leg 

 and thigh, might have given other indications to the physicians, than those 

 they took. And doubtless the frictions and other heating medicines, the 

 patient was plied with, contributed to augment his illness. In fine, the crude 

 mercury he swallowed, the vast quantity of Baleruc water he drank before it, 

 with the strong cathartics taken by the mouth and anus, seem to have cut him 



