about Two Inches in depth : The Gula which coveys the 
Food into the Stomach, con/iftedof ftrong Mufcular Fi- 
. bres, and was in a!! about Nine Inches in Length. The 
Pylorus^ that carries our, feem'd to have its Paffige free 
and open, without that annular Cooftrift-ion or Falve^ 
as in moft other Animals though here we obferved 
a larger Body of Mufcular Fibres, than in the other hte- 
ftines ; which made me u onder how a Regurgitation of 
ihQ Pieces into the Stomach was prevented; but this we 
will confider anon. 
But before we opened the Stomachy I obferved at one 
^ c. Side a Perforation * or Hole thorough, about the Big- 
nefs of an ordinary Pea^ and RounJ, That it was occa- 
fioned by an Vlcer there, I plainly perceived by the Lips 
or Edges ; which were not freili, but had an ulcerated 
Matter about them ; and this, without doubt, was the 
Occafion of its Death ; for it had fallen from its Food* 
and had pined away for fome time before, and by its un- 
eafy Motion, made its Keeper fufped, it had fwallowed 
fomething that ftuck in its Throat, or injured its Sto- 
wach. 
A like Accident as this (as a Perforation of the Stomach) 
I have Three Times met with in difleding Human Bo- 
dies ; and the laft (being joined with another Tbyfuian 
in Confultation, a little before the Patienfs Deatli) \ 
foretold and upon Difleftion found confirmed. What 
appears to me, to be moft likely to be the Caufe of this 
PerforatimXs^ that (bme of the Glands in the Stomach (inch 
SisPayerus(qq)^nd Dr.Grew(^rr)ddh}JDCS in thelnteflines} 
being become Scrophulom or Steatomatous.mght impofm- 
mate and To corrode the Coats of the Stomach, and caufe a 
(qq) Exercetat. Anat. Med. de Gland ulis Intefiinorum. (rr) Comparative 
Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts^ 
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