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The Skin was exceeding thin, having no Fat under it, 
only in a cavity between two Lobes, to be afterwards de- 
fcribed, on its Right fide, there was a fatal! appearance 
of fome ; for the Skin being lefs ftretcht there, the Cells 
of the Membrana adipofa were not quite emptyed. 
The flefliy Fibres of the Latiifimus colli were fcarce vi- 
sible. 
The Mdjloiddus and Coraco-hyoidam were extremely 
• thin, and in their afcent they adhered very firm to the 
fubjtcent Tumour. 
The Sterno-hyoidau* and the Sterne-tbyreoidaus, that 
run up the fore part of this Swelling, were diftended fo 
thin, that it was difficult to feparate them from it, efpe- 
eially the laft named. 
The Right Carotid Artery, in its afcent to the Head, 
run along its outer edge , which encreafing, did much 
obftruft the current of the Blood that way. 
The Internal Jugular, the Par Vagnm, and the Inter- 
coftal Pair went alfo over fome part of this Swelling in 
their defcent to the Thorax. Two of the Lymphatick 
Glands of the Jugular Vein were fwelled- to the bignefs 
of little Eggs, being placed at fome diftanqe one from 
another, with a hollow between, where fome Fat was 
found 5 thefe two Lobes made the Tumour very uneven 
alfo on its Right fide. 
Thefe Mufcles, the Jugular with the two Glands ad. 
hering to it, and the reft of the fore-named Veflels being 
removed on both fides, I could eafily obferve the bignefs, 
the figure and the circumfcription or limits of this preter- 
natural Tumour, with all its adhaefions to the adjacent 
parts. 
In Magnitude it feemed to exceed that of two Fifts 
joyned together. 
Its figure was almoft triangular, with a broad Balls 
under the Chin, Hoping a little on each fide, as it de- 
fcended to the upper part of the Sternum, where its point 
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