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On the le£t side the skin o£ the breast has been in part removed to 
show the packing material. On the right side the packing in the 
mamma has been removed with the skin so as to demonstrate the path 
by which the pebbl_y sand was introduced under the skin o£ the breast 
from the abdominal cavity. 
Figure 2. — The perinaeum and thighs o£ tlie mummy o£ an old woman. 
The skin o£ the thighs has been removed so as to reveal the large 
eavities traversed by the two £emora and tightly packed with mud. 
The skin has been removed from the most prominent part of the 
mons Veneris so as to demonstrate the linen packing to which its 
fulness is due. 
The rima pudendi is occupied by linen pushed into the cle£t from 
the pelvic side. 
Plate IX. 
Figure 1. — The back of the head and shoulders of the mummy of an old 
woman. 
A sore (?bedsore) has been covered over by a square pièce of leather. 
Figure 2. — The buttocks of the same mummy. A large sheet of leather 
hides two large ulcers (?bedsores). 
Figure 3. — The back of the shoulders of a mummy from which the skin 
has been partly removed to show a pad of linen pushed underneath the 
skin from an incision near the acromion. 
Figure 4. — The rest of the back of the same munnny. Two large streams 
of mud can be seen proceeding from the wound in the left flank, one 
into each buttock. The skin has been removed from the surface of 
the mud. 
Plate X. 
Figure 1. — An oblique view of the left flank of the mummy shown in 
Pl. VII, fig. 1, after removing the left arm. Part of the wax plate 
covering the embalming wound has been left in situ, but its upper 
part has been removed to show the wound and the places from which 
the packing was introduced {A) in front of the chest (see Pl. VII, 
figure 1) and {B) into the back (Pl. IX, figure 4). 
Figure 2. — A transverse section acrosâ the thorax to show the mud packed 
between the vertébral eolumn and the skin of the back. 
