( 2-9 1 ) 
I can give you no Defcription, having never attended 
him. 
In order to procure a Paffage downward (which 
I fuppofe was a principal Complaint) he took, by 
the Advice of a Fhyfician,fince dead, feveral Ounces 
of crude Mercury , at different times, without any 
Relief, and at length died. 
Upon opening th z Abdomen, which was very 
much diftended, there burft forth a great Quantity 
of Wind, though the Guts and Stomach were not 
wounded. 
The Stomach was empty - 5 and upon opening it 
we found the inner Coat very much inflamed from 
one End to the other. We obferved in feveral 
Places of the ftnall Guts, fome fcatter’d Grains of 
crude Mercury , and along with them we generally 
found a black gritty Powder, very like Aithiops 
Mineral , which was, without doubt, the Mercury 
changed into that Confidence. 
The Colon was diflended, at its Origin, to 
twice the Thicknefs that an ordinary Man's Arm 
has about the Shoulder. This extraordinary Thick- 
nefs extended itfelf about the Length of ten or 
twelve Inches; from hence it, gradually decrea- 
fed, and where it was attached to the Stomach, 
it had not above a third Part of that Size. 
It was much inflamed at its Origin, and con- 
tained at leafl fix Quarts of liquid Excrement, in 
which we obferved crude Mercury , and alfo fome 
of the black Powder mentioned above. 
The Colon , where it parted from the Stomach, 
and diverged toward the left Kidney, adhered 
about 
