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In the thorax we found the lungs very found, but 
extremely turgid with blood : they adhered very 
firmly to the pleura on both fides, and particularly 
on the left, where the adhefion was almoft to al 
The heart, as might be expected, appealed to be the 
organ principally affedted. The pericardium adhered 
almoft every-where fo clofe, as to form, as it were, 
"ten J coat thereof. The heart itfelf was of an 
enormous fize, and of a very pale colour, ‘°“ e 
and flaccid in its texture, to a very remarkable degree. 
As far as I could judge, from the moft careful exa- 
mination and comparifon, I could not find that either 
of the auricles or ventricles bore an extraordinary pro- 
portion to the other. The whole heart might be faid 
to be entirely aneurifmatical. The panetes were every- 
where thin, in proportion to the fize of the whole 
There was no particular enlargement of the aorta, a 
far as I traced it, which I did to feme diftance ; but 
its texture, as that of the heart, was very lax and 
flabby. I could not find the leaft polypofe concretions 
in any part whatfoever. When the heart was cut 
ihort from the great veffels, emptied of the coagula, 
and walhed as clean as poffible, it weighed upwards 
of twenty-eight ounces avoirdupoife weight. 
Observations. 
The fize of the human heart in a natural ftate, is 
known to differ greatly in different fubje s. 
feftions prove thif beyond all controversy, and it is 
ufually fuppofed, that the capacity of the blood-velfels 
bears \ general proportion to the fize and capacity of 
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