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till April 29th, when he first mentioned a scirrhous tumour, as large as a hen's 

 egg, situate on the left mastoid muscle of the neck. On comparing this with 

 the testicle, neither of which tumours were in the least diminished after applica- 

 tions for that purpose, it was conjectured, that either the pancreas or mesenteric 

 glands were cancerated. Various other remedies were tried ; but he became 

 more and more emaciated, till May 21st, the day of his death. 



May 22d, on removing the integuments of the abdomen, the musculi recti 

 appeared livid. The omentum was destitute of fat. The intestine contiguous 

 to the left OS innominatum was tinged with green. Nothing besides appeared 

 morbid in the viscera in situ, at first view. The situation of the pylorus seemed 

 lower than usual. The colour or texture of the liver were not remarkably pre- 

 ternatural. The spleen was of the largest size, and adhered in its hinder part 

 so strongly to the peritonaeum, that it could not be separated without lacera- 

 tion, and there remained in the place of adhesion, a thick, callous, and almost 

 horny membrane, as large as a half-crown. The pancreas was very small, and 

 seemed composed of small scirrhi. The left kidney was twice as large as na- 

 tural : its substance about the pelvis was corroded by a semipurulent cancerous 

 sanies, that was in part collected between the surface of the kidney and its con- 

 taining bag. Its internal structure was not much amiss: but the fomes morbi, 

 the most singular and surprizing phenomenon in this subject, was a number of 

 large conglobate, steatomatous, cancerated glands, reaching from the recep- 

 taculum chyli to the lowest vertebrae of the loins, so connected together as to 

 represent a pancreas affixed to the vertebras of the loins, and upper anterior 

 part of the left psoas muscle : it was 4 times as large as his pancreas, and as 

 large as the right or sound kidney. The aorta descendens pervaded the middle 

 of this preternatural substance lengthwise. From this mass, as a fountain, 

 flowed that cancerous sanies, which had made its way to the left kidney, and 

 also corroded the superior carneous part of the left psoas major, and iliacus in- 

 ternus, so that one might easily rend their gangrened flesh like rotten linen. 

 Some of this green ichor collected near the os innominatum had laid the spine 

 of it quite bare. The left spermatic vessels were knotty, tumefied, and livid. 

 The mesenteric glands were scirrhous. The descending trunk of the aorta was 

 smaller than usual ; and, dividing it, we extracted a small polypus. The exa- 

 mination of the other cavities was not permitted. 



Thomas Trinder, a taylor, at Windsor, in his 29th year, was of a pale com- 

 plexion, with red hair, of a middle stature, and thin habit, addicted to smok- 

 ing from morning to night, and now and then to hard drinking. Eight years 

 before his death, he was thrown in wrestling, so as to pitch the small of his 

 back on the corner of a chair, by which at first he was much hurt in that part ; 



