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The eleventh Experiment, 
An Inhabitant of Montpellier, aged about 30 or 
very fat and robuft, of a fanguine Complexion, having 
j had a Fall upon the Pavement, had received a fim- 
F pie Wound on the upper part of his Forehead on the 
right fide. This being negleded, brought on an E- 
ryfipelas all over his Face, which was accompany’d 
f with a Swelling of the left Parotide, This appear’d and 
i difappear’d thrice from Morning till Night. The Erj^ 
fipelas came fuddenly on 5 he grew' delirous, and di- 
ed after fifteen or twenty Days Illncfs, reckoning 
from the Fall. In the opening of the Body, we found 
I a quantity of Water between the Skull and the Du- 
ra Mater, The Brain, which was firmer than ordina- 
\ ry, was a little red, and part of the Pia Mater cov^ 
y ering the hinder part of that Fifcus, appeared in* 
i flam’d There was about half a Septier. of Water of 
a yellowifh Colour, Ibed in the Cavity of the Bread, 
i The great right Lobe of the Lungs was a little hard 
on the upper part. The Heart had a Polypofe Con* 
‘ cretion in each Ventricle : We found likewife two 
Pints of limpid Water got forth into the lower Belly. 
All the Fat of bis Carcafs was yellow. The Liver 
I appeared to us a little Cwell’d ; and the Gall Bladder 
aimoft empty, not having above two Drachms of 
yellow Bile in it. That Bile of this Carcafs, mixed 
with two Ounces of warm Water, was injected into 
the Crural Vein of a Dog. The Creature eat and 
drank heartily after the Injedion, and did not appear 
at all incommoded. The Wound bleeding much, w^e 
were obliged to fill it with reftringent Powders, kept 
in by a Pledget and a convenient Bandage. Twenty 
four Hours after, the DreflTing was taken away, the 
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