thofe Branches mark'd (G. G. ) tending to the Arms, 
how far they grew I cannot aflert, not knowing whe- 
ther they were broke off or no, but the Branches H.HJL 
H, &c. tending toward the Head / 1 well remember ) 
could not be drawn out without fome force, and 'tis very 
likely they were broke off at the Diverticula or two 
Round Sinus's where xh^ Jugulars QvitQt the Skull; for 
the like concretions were found in the Veflels of the 
Brain to which probably thefe might be adjoyn d. The 
fubftance of the whole was plainly fibrous refembling a 
Nerve^and tough while moift[t\vo\x^ upon drying^brittle)t\\Q 
colour white, and was cloathed with a thin Coat inclu- 
ding (in that part which fiil'd the Right Jugular Vein, ) 
two little black^ f^tchs [h,h,) of Blood ( as we fuppofe j a 
long while there coagulated ; as for other circumftances 
of t\iQ Jhape, extent, and largenefs of the Polypus the 
Reader may recur to the engraven Figure drawn very near 
the full dimenfions of the thing it ielf ; what has alrea- 
dy been faid of it together with the Remarques on the 
whole diflediion will I hope not be altogether unufeful 
to difcover the Caufe and Nature of thefe Itrange Bodys 
andtodetermine aQueftion much debated among learned 
Phyficians z/z^fe her a Polypus is product fome conjiderable 
time before or always immediately after death. 
Thofe that contend for their fudden generation after 
death among other Reafons of lefs moment, infift much 
on the argument drawn from the tough skm fpreading 
its felf ina fliort time on Blood let out for the cure of 
Pleurifies, Peripneumonies,Rheumatifms, violent head- 
aches, and in cafes of any inward Inflammations 3 It 
feems a good confequence, that if Bloodcoold in a Porrin- 
ger can fo fuddenly acquire a kind of a tough thick Mem- 
brane on its {urt'3.CQ;the fame coldnefs andw ant of motion af 
ter death might as eafiiy make the fame product in the Fef 
felsaud 'tis tobe confeft that ixxchlikQConcretions have been 
difcover d in pleuritical Bodys differed. Yet however 
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