Jrom ttje f^erfons own Mouth in his Life time, confirm'd 
at the 'f<rfne time by faiVM yet living, and 
' i'SS'very lately repeattd the feinc to nie,I hopeitraay obtaiu 
credit with you^ bcfides I can afiure you, tliat all the 
■Neighbourhood will witnefs the truth of it, many Gen^ 
tlemcn, Clergymen and others having had the curicfity 
' iPG> fee and examine the Perfon, 
^ ~ Mr Cowper*s N^>/e on the foregoing LetUr. 
^ It's not improhable, if the Abdomen of this Perfon had been 
eperjed, hut fowe of its Contents uould have been found 
not unlike thofe I have mentioned y in my Explication 
ef the :^:{fh Table of Prints puhlifhed by Dr Bid loo, where 
1 take notice of a young Oentlewoman I differed , in 
-nhom I ohferved the Otr.entum fo leffened^ that at firjl 
it appeared doubtful I if that part had ever been exijient in 
that fuLje& 5 hit on firiU examination th/e little Remains of 
it refimhled a Congeries of fmall Glandules^ finjfed with a 
Suet like matter. The whole Canal of the Intefiincs^ even frofn 
■th^ Pylorus to the Anus, was dtftended with Excrements^ and 
the Surfaces of all the fmall Guts adhered fo [iri&ly to each 
other^ that they could not be parted witboMt tearing their ex- 
ternal Membrane^ to which the Omentum contributed hj its 
■ adhejton : The whole Compages of the Intefiins very much 
'refembling that of the external fur face of the Brain covered 
with the Pia matrr, fo that the Mejentery in that fnbjeS could 
r/ot be feen till this external inclofure was divided. By this 
difarder^ 'tis certain, the Perijialticl^ motion of the Guts mnjl 
needs he very much lejfenedy if not quite hindered. The Perito- 
naeum r^/yi? i-athit cafe was very much thicken"d,and hadfeveral 
preternatural white bodies fet at various difiances on its in- 
ternal fur face 5 the like appeared on the Stomach, which very 
much refembled in figure the Miliary Glands on the tack, part 
ofth Afpera Arteria. 
-Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford, Printers to the Royal 
Society, at the Prince's Arms in St Paul'5 Churchyard. 
