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caic before, and at the firft-mention’d time, when flje 
readily confented to the examination of her body, 
&c. after death. 
From that time to her death, which happened Feb. 
6, 1753, the chief thing (he complain’d of, and what 
the people about her obferved, was a gradual increafe 
of difficulty of breathing ; a wafting of her flefh ; a 
ceftation of her menftruation for the laft four months ; 
a tendency in her legs to mortify, which had long 
been anafarcous, and excoriated almoft all over j fhe 
retaining her fenfes perfectly to the laft moment of 
her life, and dying without (hewing the leaft figns of 
the agonies of death. 
Two days after death, her limbs being fir ft well 
ftretched out, fire was exactly meafured, and found 
wanting of her natural ftature more than two feet two 
inches. Then the thorax and abdomen were opened, 
the fternum being intirely removed, with part of 
the ribs, in order to gain at once a full view of thofe 
cavities, and difeover hoyv the vifeera therein con- 
tained had obftru&ed each other in their refpedtive 
functions. The heart and lungs were found, but flac- 
cid, and much confined in their motion 5 to which 
the enormous fize of the liver contributed in fome 
meafure, extending quite crofs the abdomen, and 
bearing hard againft the diaphragm. The lungs did 
not adhere to the pleura ; nor was the liver feirrhous, 
but faulty only in its bulk The mefentery was found, 
except only one large feirrhous gland upon it. The 
fpleen extremely fmall. Nothing elfe was found ob- 
fervable in thofe cavities. 
The fcull was not opened, to examine the brain, 
as intended, we wanting time 3 the minifter waiting at 
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