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fecond caft in upon our Shore in my time,' There is fa 
little to be feen in the Natural Hiftory relating to fucu 
Animals as this, I thought this rude account, fuch as it is, • 
would not be unwelcome to you. 
II. An Account of a Hydrops Ovarii, with a new 
and exaEl Figure of the Glandule rcnales, and of 
the Uterus in a Puerpera. Communicated by 
Dr Douglas, F. % S. 
I Lately opened the Body of a Woman, aged 27, who 
dyed the third day after Delivery, on which I made 
the following remarks. 
1. She meafured round the Wafte a yard and three 
quarters, and from the Scrobiculus Cordis to the Os Pubis a 
yard and a quarter. 
2. All the cutaneous Veins of the Abdomen were of a 
very unufual and extraordinary bignefs, and very much 
diftended with .Blood. From the largeft of them, being 
opened, I extracted feveral polypous concretions. 
3. The Cuticula, from the 'Umbilicus downwards, was 
rough and fcaly to the .naked Eye. In feveral parts it 
appeared gangreened, occafioned probably by the (harp- 
nets of the Serum that always ouzed out of it, when file 
fcratched the little Pimples or Wheals that arofe on its 
furface j thefe for fome time ufed to go off without 
any Scar, but as her ftrength decayed they became mor- 
tified. 
4. Upon all the Regio Epigafirica the outward Integu- 
ments were very thin, little or no fat being vifible : But 
from the upper part of the Regio Umbilicalis, down to 
H the 
