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188 



Cuac of £m2>huscma, d!C. 



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Luiirs pa^t, nor liaJ swallowed any thing but a little -drink. 



The' tnmoui 



cd the whole trnnk, except a small 



area round the navel, and a narrow stripe both above and be- 

 low it, upon the linca alha, which were free from all swell- 

 ing J the whole neck was puffed up, and the head under the 

 hairy scalp every where, except the back part ; where the 



air seems to have been prevented from insinuatir 

 the pressure of the hcacl^ as it lay upon the pillo\ 



;i>y 



face 



was 



y 



here free, as also both the 



upp 



and low 



limb?. This evening the child died; but to our great mor- 

 tification, no persuasions could prevail upon the mother, 

 to permit the body to be inspected. The appearance of the 

 tumour upon the dead body, was much the same the next 

 morning, as it had been before death. 



To account for those uncommon appearances, I think we 

 must suppose a communication some where, between the 

 cavity of the lungs, and the cellular membrane ; and as the 



first appe 



of Emphi/sema took pi 



neck 



a violent fit of coughing; it seems highly probabl 

 this communication was formed, by a rupture 



upon 



that 



of the mem- 



branes of the 



mj^era artcna^ somewhere between its cartil- 



and thus gave passage to the air from the 



the adjacent cellular membr 



at every expiration; and 



as 



h was very violent, the air would 



effort 

 openin 



ery 



more especially, be forcibly impelled through 



this 



thus 



tend its(jlf wjierever this membrane c 



tended ; 



• Tosaibly a small abscess might be fomiea between these membrane3, 

 weakening them, occasion their bursting, upon a violent exertion in cou-hin'^. 



and so by 



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