The Packing of the Anterior Abdominal WaJl. 
In many, or perliaps most, cases no attempt was made to stuff 
the anterior wall of the body , excepting m 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 upAvard from 
the wound in the le£t flank to the front of the chest and mud, 
mixed with chafE in one case, had been introduced so as to mould 
the form of the bust (figure 3, S and PL VII, figure 1). In 
wonien with l(^ng flattened pendulous breasts no attempt was 
made to introduce any packing material into the mamma itself. 
In the case of the woman represented in Ph 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 (Pl. VIII, figure 1) introduced under the skin 
from the abdomen. In another case the right breast (but not 
the left) had been packed with linen introduced in a similar 
manner. 
The anterior abdominal wall itself was not packed if we 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 whole of the pectoralis major fulness w^as moulded from it. 
In the mummy of an old woman the mons Veneris was packed 
with linen. This had been donc from the abdominal cavity by 
separating the skin from the symphysis pubis and forcing the 
linen above the left pubic spine and then transversely inward in 
front of the body of the pubes (figure 3, A^and Pl. VIII, figure 2). 
I have seen similar linen-packing in the pubic région in a man 
and in several cases the mud employed in packing the thighs 
