394 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1747. 



sented itself to view, adhering transversely about 10 inches to the anterior part 

 of the peritonaeum. 



This adhesion being separated, they had a full view of this wonderful reservoir, 

 which was of an enormous size, and had almost occupied the whole cavity of the 

 abdomen. In figure, colour, thickness, number, magnitude, and distribution 

 of blood-vessels, it very much resembled the uterus of a cow at the end of gesta- 

 tion. The whole inside was scabrous, and looked as if parboiled ; and here and 

 there was observed a small quantity of a cofFee-coloured sediment. On the left 

 interior part was discovered the orifice of a duct, which opened obliquely into the 

 cavity of the saccus, and would easily admit of a large goose-quill. From this 

 opening the tube advanced about 1 2 inches between the membranes of the bag 

 obliquely upward, and toward the right, from whence it was inflected downwards, 

 and passed between the duplicature of the ligamentum latum uteri, to be 

 inserted into the bladder of the urine. The saccus was connected to the liga- 

 mentum suspensorium hepatis, to a considerable part of the mesocolon, to the 

 peritonaeum on the right side in 2 or 3 different places, to the same membrane 

 the whole length of the spine, and to the ligamentum latum uteri on the right 

 side of the body. 



The liver was sound, but less than in a natural state ; and its convex part ad- 

 hered closely to the diaphragm. The stomach, spleen, omentum, small intes- 

 tines, and the upper part of the colon, were thrust very high up into the left 

 hypochondrium. The convolutions of the lower part of the same intestine were 

 entirely obliterated ; and that, with the rectum, formed one continued straight 

 tube, from the left hypochondrium down to the anus. The left kidney, with 

 its emulgent vessels and ureter, were in their natural state and situation. The 

 uterus, tuba Fallopiana, and ovarium, on the same side, had nothing preterna- 

 tural ; but on the right side, the Fallopian tube and ovary were disposed in a very 

 extraordinary manner. The tube, by means of the adhesion of the ligamentum 

 latum uteri to the saccus, was extended to 3 times its ordinary length. The 

 ovary was likewise, by the same cause, rendered very preternatural, being no less 

 than 3-1- inches long, 1 inch broad, -^ of an inch thick, and 2 inches and -^ 

 distant from the uterus. The bladder of urine was very small, but appeared to 

 be sound. 



They then made an accurate search for the right kidney ; but to their great 

 surprise, found no such viscus, nor any thing analogous to it, unless the saccus 

 that contained the water already described, may be esteemed such : and what 

 seemed to favour this opinion, was the disposition of the emulgent vessels on 

 the right side, which were propagated from the aorta and vena cava to this saccus, 

 in the same manner as to the kidney on the opposite side ; and after having run 



