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’be earned off in that iiianner ; but the tumour., 
■weaknefs, and other rymptoins encreafed, till the 
k'cond day of September inrtant when the expired. 
After her death, on opening her abdomen, in pre- 
fence of feven gentlmen of the faculty, we found 
about a gallon of water, and a large fleatomatous 
tumour juft under the peritoneum, near three inches 
in thicknefs, feven inches in length from her ftomach 
to the obtufe angle of her ribs, and in fome places 
near five inches in breath from her fternum to the 
vertebras of her back, full of prominences of dif- 
ferent fizes. It was of a hard confiftence, like tallow 
in its anterior part, but fofeer pofteriorly, and divided 
by thin membranes into numerous cells, which 
were diftended with hard and fofter fat ; it weighed 
.feven pounds, was of an irregular figure, adhered 
to, and comprellcd, the anterior part of her ftomach, 
and was fo firmly united to the inferior furface of 
the liver, that it could not be feparated from it 
without force. It preffed and concealed the colon, 
.and extended from the ftomach by her liver to the 
right ovarium, and vertebras of her back : the fmall 
guts were greatly fqueezed, and moftly forced to- 
wards the left fide ; and the anterior lobe of her 
liver was fo comprefled between the diaphragm and 
tumour, that it appeared flattened, fmaller than 
ufual, and in a withered, decaying ftate. 
There was nothing praeternatural in the matrix, or 
any of the other bowels ; but they were greatly 
compreffed, and the tumour, from its membranes 
and contained fat, feemed to be a production and 
diftenfion of that part of the omentum, which ad- 
Iieres to the ftomach, although it reached and ad- 
hered 
