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morbid Bodies, will appear from the two following 
fiances, among many more that might be adduced for 
that purpofe* For it is certain, that nothing has contri- 
buted fo much towards forming a right Notion of the 
Nature of the feveral Difeafes, and a true knowledge of 
the Structure of many Parts of the Human Body, as 
their appearance in a preternatural State. 
My firfb Obfervation is of the Glands vifiblc to the na- 
ked Eye, that appear difperfed thro’ the Fibrous Subdance 
of the Human Spleen. The Subject I found them in, 
was a Boy of about 4 or $ Years Old, that died of a 
general Atrophy , or Confumption of all the Mufcular 
Flefhy Parts of the Body, occafioned without all doubt 
from the numerous Glandulous Swellings fcattered up and 
down the whole Mefentery ; which by compelling the 
Lymphatick Veflels, called in this place Fafa hole a, pre- 
vented the accefs and fupply of the Chyle, fo neceflary 
for the continued nourilhment and increafe of the Parts. 
For without the conflant Recruit of this whitilh Ballamick 
Liquor, the Mafs of Blood will in a Ihort time be unfit 
to perform any of thofe good Offices, which a freih ac- 
celiion of Chyle qualifies it for. 
In a piece of this Spleen we might fee, without the 
adidance of a Glafs, feveral round whitilh Bodies of a 
pretty hard Confidence, and abundance of fmall white 
and fofter fpecks; but both of the fame nature. Thcfe, 
to me at lead, appear to be fo many didined Glands be- 
come vifible ; which in a Natural State are only to be 
feen by a fine Glafs, as the curious Malpighius fird obfer- 
Ved. Vid. his Treatile de Liene , Cap. V. De qutbufdam cor- 
foribus per Lienem difperjis. Minima ha glandule , fays he, 
non aque facile fefe prodmt in quocunque an i ma Hum Liene : 
mofola Lienis laceratione innotejeunt in Bove, Ove, &c. In Ho - 
mine vero difficilius emergunt : ft tamen ex morho univerfum 
glandular urn gems turgeat , manifejliorcs redduntur, duel a 
