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of an elongation of the cerebellum; so that this small portion of brain did most 

 likely belong to the cerebellum. 



At the basis of this kind of unformed cranium, forwards, was an opening 

 leading to a small brown hydatid, situated on the right side, under a bone which 

 had the appearance of a portion of the maxilla, which led towards a sort of mouth, 

 scarcely formed and closed. There was nothing on the (jther side, no appearance of 

 a mouth, nor any thing that seemed the least like it. He took this hydatid for an 

 unformed jugular bag, or true caecum; in the adjoining bone he found a kind of 

 right ear. The fore part of this same superior surface of the cranium was flat, 

 but a little hollowed, like the upper surface of the larynx; in the middle was a 

 considerable ridge, and on its anterior part appeared a prominence: thus this bone, 

 which should have been similar to the 2 parietals, did not resemble them at all. 

 Underneath this prominence, the bone took a perpendicular turn, making a sharp 

 angle with the upper surface, and forming a cavity in its descent, which ter- 

 minated in a projection forwards; it was on the right side of this projection 

 where the supposed right branch of the maxilla was attached; within that branch 

 appeared the trace of the jugular above-mentioned, and very distinctly the nerve 

 of the eighth pair. 



In the breast, or rather under the ribs, were neither heart nor lungs, but the 

 same white, parenchymatous and oedematous-like substance, seen in the place of 

 the head. Below this was no diaphragm, at least no distinct one. In the belly, 

 which extended itself just under the ribs, was a bundle of intestines, and a little 

 red mass, which he called the liver, for want of a better name, because it 

 seemed, that when he pulled the umbilical cord, this substance moved, which 

 induced him to believe that the umbilical vein entered there. No stomach, 

 spleen, pancreas, or kidneys were seen. The intestinal mass was divided into 2 

 portions. The first was of a reddish colour, which terminated upwards in a blind 

 pouch, and below joined the other portion, as the ileum does where it unites with 

 the colon and caecum. This 2d portion was white, and seemed to include the 

 large intestines. The caecum was very long, or rather the caecum and its 

 appendix vermi-formis were of the same size. Thus, there was neither jejunum, 

 nor duodenum, nor stomach, nor any liver properly speaking: for that which he 

 found in the place of it, was a red viscus, and of the conglomerate kind, like the 

 kidney in a foetus. Having cleared it from all its adhesions, he discovered 

 neither vessels analogous to those of the sinus of the vena portae, nor any thing 

 that resembled the figure of the liver, or of any of its appurtenances. He 

 opened it, and was more and more convinced that it was rather a kidney, or knot 

 of renal glands, than a liver, though it was one mass, and placed in the midst of 

 the intestines; it had still less the resemblance of a heart, having no cavity, no 

 vessels, nor any muscular fibres, 



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