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Tn the DiiTedion of this morbid Heart I obferved the 
following remarkable Particulars. 
1. That the Pericardium or Capfula Cordis was very thick, 
and firmly adhered or grew by a fibrous Connexion to 
all the outer Surface of the Heart. 
i. Inftead of the Water called Liquor Pericardii, there was 
only in fome places about the Bafis of the Heart a muci- 
laginous clear Subftance like a Geliy. 
3. In the right Auricle lay’d open there was nothing 
preternatural. The afcending and defending Cava open- 
ed into the fame as ufual. The Veftigium or Mark of the 
Foramen ovale with its femicircular limbus was very plain- 
A nd the Orificium of the Vena Cordis Coronaria was ex- 
treamly large, yet its Valve was lefs than ufual. 
4. In the right V entricle layed open, the Valvula called 
tricufpides were configurate after the ufual manner. The 
Tides of this Cavity were thin and full of fmall flefhy Co- 
lumn* as they commonly are, with great variety of Fur- 
rows and little holes. The three figmoide or femilunar 
Valves in the Mouth of the arteria pulmonalis, were as 
they always are in a natural State. 
5. The left Auricle was not much bigger than ordi 
nary : but its mufcular Appendage, called the Bulb of the 
Pulmonary Vein by the late Mr. Confer, was extraordinari- 
ly dilated and enlarged beyond any thing that I ever 
faw. 
6 . The left Ventricle, whofe Capacity in a natural State 
is always lefs than the right, was here confiderably larger. 
And if the Experiment had been made, before DifTe&ion,, 
of filling both with any Liquor, this had certainly con- 
tained three times more than the other. 
7. Th zValvuU called Mitrales, placed at the Orifice of 
this Ventricle, are much thicker in Subftance than ordina- 
ry ; and the two flefhy Columns, called by Nicolaus Majfa, 
almoft zoo Years ago, duo parvt mufculi, which fend out 
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