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vity of common fdone. It is chequered or marbled, as 
you fee in the figure, Tab. XVI. by which you can 
diftinguifh the primitive particles of the bone whiter 
and harder than the darker part: it was formed on the 
lower extremity of the mefocolon, and probably as 
it grew big was carried down by its own weight into 
the bafon, where it had no adherence to, nor connec- 
tion with, any of the adjacent parts, but lay in its own 
very thin membrane or fterioftium, betwixt the os 
pubis and ,the bladder, fomewhat to the right fide. 
It was joined to the mefenterium by a tough, corn- 
pad:, membranaceous, glandulous fubftance, in the 
form of an inverted cone, whofe point was firmly 
inferted in the cavity obferved on the top : here the 
membranaceous fibres were turned into bones, or, 
vice verfa , the fibres of bones degenerated into flefhy 
membranes: there was no intermediate cartilaginous 
lubflance to be obferved. By drawing. up this conic 
body with very little effort, the bone followed, to the 
great furprife of all the fpedators ; after which there 
was no farther inquiry made, in regard of the other 
vifcera of the abdomen. It w 7 as only taken notice 
of, that the omentum was quite confumed, and the 
mefenterium very much fwelled and fchirrous. 
The man, that bred this monflrous bone, was called 
Strafzet, was born in Bavaria, and lived to the age of 
45, of which he was 28 years a mufketeer in Ba- 
reith’s imperial regiment. He 'was always ftrong and 
healthy till about five years ago, when he began to 
complain of the hardnefs of his belly, and now and 
then of a fupprefiion of urine, of which laid incon- 
veniency he could help himfelf, by turning on his 
right fide, and lying a little on his face : by that po- 
4 Q^2 fition, 
