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Day before, when all the Parts were fofc and flexible. And here 
in general I mull tell you, that the Flelh of this Animal was 
for the moft part fo ftrong, that no Launcet I had, how keen 
or ftrong fbever, could do any Service : So that I was forc’d to 
makeufe of Butcher’s Knive , when I could not admit of their 
Hands • and how unfit fuch Inftruments are for Anatomical 
Preparations, I leave you to judge. 
1 come next to the Thorax-, where there was fcarce any thing 
remarkable. 1 think I need not tell, that th eTiJcera here were large 
and ftrong. One of the Lobes of the Lungs was open'd by the 
Butchers, and the other had nothing obfervable, but its bignefs, 
which was proportionable enough. It did not adhere to rhe 
Ribs, as in Dr. Moulin 7 s Subject \ but lay flaccid on the one fide 
of the Heart, as the other had done, before it was mangled, on the 
other fide ; fo that I look upon this Adhefion of Dr. Moulins 
to have been in a morbid State. At firft I defigned to have taken 
out the whole Vifcera Thoracis, till the Butcher prevented me; 
and as I began to direft him between the two firft Ribs, I faw 
two large Glands, one fituated on the outfide of each of the Ca- 
rotides , as they pafted out of the Thorax ; they were round, and 
near the bignefs of a Turky Hen’s Egg, each having a confpicuous 
Artery inferted, and a Vein paffing from them. Thefe 1 took to 
be the Thymus ; which, tho’ feldom obferv’d in adult Subje&s, Thymus, 
yet perhaps may at all times be feen in fuch a large Animal } 
as this. 1 cut off one of them with part of the adherent Ar- 
tery } and could obferve nothing at the opening of it, but feve- 
ral loofe thin Membranes without, which I fuppofe do have 
fupported and contained in the Cavity (whofe fides theydefcribe 
as they run to and fro’) a great deal of Fat, when the Animal 
was in good cafe,* and a firm glandulous Subftance within, with- 
out any Cavity. I fh ill not pofitively determine, whether thefe 
were actually the Thymus , or only adventitious Glands ; but be- 
caufe they were regularly fituated, which feldom happens to 
adventitious Glands, ’tis probable they wer©. T heir Veflels were 
proportionable to their bignefs, but I can fay nothing to their 
Ufe. When I faw I could not extract the Tifcera Thoracis whole, 
I trac’d one of the Branches of the Jlorta afcendens down to the A Polypus 
Heart-, and was furpriz’d, when leut it above, to fee a fat-like** r/;e Aoria>* 
Subftance jeat out of it j and pulling it, 1 got upwards of 2 Foot 
in length of a Polypus adapted to the Capacity of the Artery, 
which was about 2 4 of an Inch Diameter. This polypus was no 
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