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what lefs dry and hard, and the mefenteric glands 
and lamina more diftinCt. The kidneys and glan- 
du l a renales were involved in a very plentiful portion 
of fat ; and for the mod part the ureters j that of the 
left kidney and glandula renalis refembling the fat of 
the mefentery in the left fide of the abdomen , and that of 
the right, the fat of the mefentery in the right tide : the 
left kidney and glandula renalis were nearly of the fame 
brown complexion, but in every other refpedt in a 
date analogous to that of the fpleen: the left ure- 
ter was of a natural colour, foft, fmooth, and flexi- 
ble ; but where inveloped with fat, fomething hard, 
rough, and inflexible : the right kidney and glandula 
renalis . together with the right ureter, were in all 
refpedts in a natural date, as was likewife the vefica 
urinaria , except that it was quite empty, and its 
coats confiderably thicken’d and contracted. The 
aorta and vena cava , together with their capital 
branches, the receptaculum ckyli and vejicula J’emi- 
nales , being cover’d with fat, which was likewife of 
a pale complexion, and more or lefs dry and hard, 
as it was fituated in the right or left fide of the abdo- 
men, 1 was obliged to content myfelf with infpedting 
the large and more obvious parts j it being altogether 
impracticable to remove the vifcera , as I was fur- 
rounded and prefs’d by near an hundred people, du- 
ring the whole time of difledtion. 
I come now to acquaint you with the condition of 
the pleura , and contents of the thorax : and in order 
thereto, I extended the longitudinal feCtion of the 
abdomen , quite thro’ the parietes of the thorax , on. 
the left flde of the flernum to the clavicle ; and tho' 
the integuments and mu Teles of the thorax were in a 
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