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with each other. The fubftance of the inteftines 
was rough, and a great many pimples, as big as the 
head of a pin, appeared in them, and were almoft 
free from any moifture. It is proper to obferve, 
that thefe pimples have been taken for glands by the 
late Dr. James Douglas, and others ; whereas they are 
in reality nothing elfe but the orifices of the exhaling 
veflels obftrudted, and are not to be met with ex- 
cept in morbid cafes. 
After having made incifions in that part of the 
colon next to the redhitn, I found the peritoneum, or 
external membrane which inverts the inteftines, and 
the r oifcera of the abdomen , to be of the thicknefs of 
a fix-pence j and I fairly drew all the intertines from 
their external membrane without feparating their co- 
hefions ; the peritoneum , or external membrane, af- 
terwards appearing like another fet of inteftines. I 
found a fluid in the intertines ; and I will not take 
upon me to fay, how the periftaltic motion muft have 
been performed. And afterwards I parted the fto- 
mach from its external tunic, as I had done the in- 
teftines. I found no obftrudlion in the mefenteric 
glands ; but every evolution of the mefentery firmly 
cohered together. The liver alfo adhered clofely 
to the diaphragm, and its adjacent parts : and in the 
vejicula fellis I found the bile pretty thick, neither 
too green nor too yellow, but a tint between both. 
I met with nothing remarkable in the other parts of 
the abdomen. In opening the thorax , I found the 
lungs clofely adhering to the ribs laterally, and pof- 
teriorly and interiorly clofe to the pericardium . In 
making an incificn to open the pericardium, I found 
it fo clofely adhering to the heart, that I could not 
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