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Dr. Granville’s essay on 
the conclusion of my account of the dissection of the one I 
have described, by which I trust the Society will be enabled 
to form an opinion of the degree of importance that belongs 
to the present communication. 
An incision having been made into the parietes of the ab- 
domen, just below the ribs, and continued down to the hip 
bone, on both sides, and carried along the margin of the 
pubis, the whole of the integuments and muscles were re- 
moved, so as to expose that cavity completely to view. The 
objects which then presented themselves were a portion of 
the stomach adhering to the diaphragm, the spleen much 
reduced in size and flattened, attached to the super-renal cap- 
sule of the left kidney, and the left kidney itself, imbedded 
in, but not adhering to the latter, and retaining its ureter, 
which descended into the bladder. This, as well as the 
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uterus and its appendages, were observed in situ, exhibiting 
strong marks of having been in a diseased state for some 
time previously to the death of the individual. Fragments 
only of the intestinal tube could be found, some of them of 
considerable dimensions, and among them part of the coecum, 
with its vermiform appendix, and portions of the ilium. 
Several large pieces of the peritoneal membrane were like- 
wise observed. (See Plate XXII. fig. i, 2, s.) 
There were also several lumps of a particular species of 
brittle resin, two or three small pieces of myrrh in their 
simplest and natural state, and a few larger lumps, of an irre- 
gular shape, of some compound of a bituminous and resinous 
nature, mixed up with an argillaceous earth. These seemed 
to have been forced up to fill the cavity of the abdomen, after 
the removal of the largest portions of the intestines, and of 
