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were hard, white, and compa&ed. The pylorus, 
and the duodenum were in a fimilar ftate. The cir- 
cular fibres of the pylorus were rigid beyond conjec- 
ture. The concretions, fix in number, each weigh- 
ing half a drachm, and fpecifically heavier than wa- 
ter, a circumftance unufual, were all ranged in a par- 
allel line, and tallying pretty exa&ly with one ano- 
ther, fo completely filled up the tube (for it might 
be callled with more propriety fo than bladder) as to 
allow but little intermediate fpace. The paflage into 
the duodenum was almoft clofed up. Scarce any 
fincere gall ifi'ued forth on incifion; but a fmall quan- 
tity of a turbid, faponaceous fluid, not unlike choco- 
late in colour, came out, or rather was exprefled out, 
gradually. — The bile, not finding a ready exit through 
the dudtus choledocus, ftagnated probably in its re- 
pofitory, became difeafed, and, acquiring the confid- 
ence of l'oapy dregs, proved the conftituents of thofe 
concretions, which on experiment are found com- 
buflible as wax, and as no fermentation arifes from 
pouring acids upon them, it may be concluded the 
bile is no alkali. The omentum was almoft deftroy- 
ed, the little that remained of it, was hard and black, 
and afforded no ill emblem of fea weed, when dried. 
The glands of the mefentery were in fome parts 
fchirrous ; in others, they reprefented fmall and dif- 
tindt fteatomas. It may be needlefs to obferve what 
is common to other dead bodies, that the diftenfion 
of the ftomach and inteftines was in the greateft ex- 
tremity. 
v ol * Lin. 
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