An E^trciiivf thtJournall of the Philofophicall So-! 
. tiety (?/^Oxford;^iz/i^g an account of a large prae^ 
ternaturall Glandulofe fubjiance^ found between 
the Heart and Pericardium of an Ox. 
N&vem. 4th 1684. 
THAT Lump of Flefli, taken out of an Ox,and feen 
by this Society^ the laft Week ; having been exa- 
mind, by feverall of our Members,afForded the following 
Obfervations. 
The weight of the whole fubftance, cleard from the 
little Fat, 6cc. adjoyning to it, amounted to 19I. /. 
As to its figure, it lo farrefembled a. Hearty that it 
was along time taken fornothing elfe i but itwasfome- 
tliiipg flatter, than the Heart is naturally j each of the 
flat fides making an equilaterall Triangle. 
The Bajis of this Cone of flefli was 2 foot 7 inches in 
^Circumference: a thred drawn round it lengthways, 
from t\xQ Bafa to the Vertex^ came to 2 foot, 9 inches. 
We then divided it, cutting from the Vertex to the 
Bafis of tliQ Cone 'y and paffing thro both th^ Ventricles ^ 
and Mucro of the Heart » by which means we faw the 
Heart not to exceed the naturall fize^ that which was 
extraordinary about it,being a large Glandulous fubftance 
compaflSngtheH^/xr^(^unlels where theVefTels had their 
paflage,) and flretching the pericardium to the excefs 
before mentioned : We faw no Liquor in the 'Pericardii 
urUy nor indeed was there room for any j this Glandulofe 
Jubjiance taking up all the ipace between the Heart and 
Pericardium^ to both which it grew very faft. 
This praeternaturall fubftance was thickefl: about the 
BaJis of the Heart, where it coverd the Aunculce^ and was 
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