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1 An Anatowkal Account of fome Kemarl^ahk 
things^ found on the DiJfeBion of a Woman^ 
who dyed of the Dropjicy after the Faracentejis 
was performed^ with a fmall KefleSlion on the 
Caufes of the Drop fie. By £>r. Charles Prefton. 
BEingcalJed to the DifTedion of Madam ^^7//?^«/, the 
Chirurgeon one Dh Linicr, Operator to Monfieur 
Du Ferny ; what we found remarkable is as follows : 
In opening the Lower Belly, the Liver was found very 
White,the Epiploon extreamly dryed, the Stomachmuch 
bigger than ordinary, the winding of the Colon, which 
paffe under the Stomach, extreamly drawn together by 
three Threds. In the Umbilical Region, thelnieftines 
Jejunum and Ilium, much inflamed, and their Tunicks 
much more thick than ordinary. In the Hypogoftrick 
Region, all theinferiour part of the Inteftinellecn, on 
that fide near the Bladder, and all the bottom of the Ma- 
trix ; as alfothe inferiour part of the Redtum much In- 
flamed and Ulcerated. In the bottom of the Matrix 
there was an Abfcefi, and the internal Orifice extreamly 
Dilated, about the largenefiof a Crown ; the extremity 
Qf the inferiour part of the Ureter Carti'aginous ; the 
Extremity of the Tulde Fallopiance went fo high, as the 
fecond Vertebre of the Lumbar Region ; in the interiour 
part it was Dilated flx^ines, and near the bottom of the 
Matrix, about two Inches, and was tyed to all the inferior 
part of the Kidney that of the leff fide was Dilatedv 
about four Lines in the upper part, and fix in the inferior. . 
The right Tefticle, or Ovarium, which ordinarily does 
aot exceed the bignefs of a Pidgeons Egg, was here of 
a ccnfidcrable bigneft, three Inches long, and two of i 
breadth; and in the inferior part, there was found an 
Egg, hanging by its Ligament, out of the Tula Falh-^ 
piamy about the bignefs of the Yolk of a common Hens 
