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reafonable. It was the opinion of Dr. Jones, who 
attended him conftantly in the country, as well as of 
Dr. Lewis, and myfelf, who vifited him occafionally 
from Oxford, that his pains were inflammatory, though 
not violently fo. But where the inflammation was 
exadly feated, we could not precifely determine j as 
it feemed often to fhift it’s fituation, and the patient 
was himfelf incapable of giving us the neceffary de- 
fcription, his weak ftate obliging him to fignify his- 
meaning more by flgns than words, and thofe not 
always intelligible. As nothing pofitive could there- 
fore be laid with regard to the feat of the diforder, the 
friends of the deceafed deflred, that his body might be 
opened; and Dodtor Jones and myfelf being pre- 
fent at the operation, I minuted down fuch appear- 
ances, as prefented themfelves to our view, and colled-'- 
the following obfervations. 
The lmall inteflines, the exterior coat of the flo- 
mach, and concave part of the left lobe of the liver, 
were all conflderably inflamed. The gall bladder 
was very large, and full of bile. 
The fat, inclofed in the cellular membrane, fur- 
rounding the right kidney, was conflderably wafted, . 
and very much indurated ; and appeared to adhere 
more firmly than ufual to the external, furface. of the 
kidney. Upon removing this kidney with it ! s fat, 
all the parts adjacent appeared much inflamed. The 
whole kidney was foft, and contained matter, fo dif- 
feminated through its whole fubftance, that it iflued 
out upon preflu re from every part; in the fame man- 
ner as an absorbed fluid does from the pores of a 
fponge. No ftone, or gravel, were found in the peL 
v’is, or any other part of the right kidney. 
