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preternatural adhefion to one another, or to the pleura, 
diaphragm, or peritonaum . 
1 fhali now defcribe to you the ftate of the parts 
concern’d in the articulation of the knee ; and having 
for that purpofe remov’d the integuments and muf- 
cles from the joint, I found the tendinous ligaments 
covering the anterior convex furface of the patella of 
a whitifh complexion, firm, fmooth, and flexible, 
and the cartilage covering the poflerior, white, folid, 
fmooth, and elaftic. The burfal and crucial ligaments, 
the femilunar cartilages, mucilaginous glands, and the 
adipofe fubftance, in which the glands were feated, 
were all moiiten’d with fmophia , and in their natural 
order. The anterior furface of the patella was fome- 
what rough and black j but the pofterior, together 
with the procefles and cavities in the fuperior part of 
the tibia, and the apophyfes and cavity in the inferior 
part of the os femoris , were in all refpedts in a natural 
itate. 
I fhall finifh this account of the diffedtion with a 
defcription of the ftate of the tendons in the left arm, 
near the wrift, together with that of the occipitalis 
mufcle, pericranium , and os gccipttis. As to the 
former, tho’ the integuments and mufcles were black 
and mouldering, the tendons were of a whitifh co- 
lour, clofe contexture, hard and fmooth j and as to 
the latter, having feparated the integuments in the 
occiput , I found the occipitalis mufcle quite red, moift 
fofc, ftrong, and contractile, th t pericranium tolera- 
bly white, firm, fmooth, and unelaftic ; and the os 
occipitis of a very firm and folid texture, fomewhat 
rough and black, but, on fcraping off the furiace, 
fmooth, and of a natural colour. 
Having 
