The Packing of the Anterior Abdominal Wall. 
In many, or perhaps most, cases no attemjit was made to stuff 
the anterior wall of tlie body, excepting in the small area adjoining 
the shoulder. But in several cases I have found that a track had 
been made between the skin and the muscle passing upward from 
the wound in the left flank to the front of the chest and mud, 
mixed with chaff in one case, had l)een introduced so as to mould 
the form of the bust (figure 3, S and PI. VII, figure 1). In 
women with long flattened pendulous breasts no attempt was 
made to introduce any packing material into the mamma itself. 
In the case of the woman represented in PI. VII the breasts were 
small and infantile and were rendered slightly prominent by 
means of mud packing. In another case of a somewhat corpulent 
woman whose mammae must during life have been full and 
rounded without being pendulous the organs had been packed 
with pebbly sand (Pi. VIII, figure 1) introduced under the skin 
from the abdomen. In another case the right breast (but not 
the left) had been packed Avith linen introduced in a similar 
manner. 
The anterior abdominal wall itself Avas not packed if w^e exclude 
the tract made for packing the bosom. 
In other cases the packing material introduced through the 
shoulder incision was pushed inward as far as the sternum and 
the Avhole of the pectoralis major fulness was moulded from it. 
In the mummy of an old woman the mons Veneris was packed 
with linen. This had been done from the abdominal cavity by 
separating the skin from the symphysis pubis and forcing the 
linen alcove the left pubic spine and then transversely inward in 
front of the body of the pubes (figure 3, /Vand Pl.VIII, figure 2). 
I have seen similar linen-packing in the pubic region in a man 
and in several cases the mud employed in packing the thighs 
