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auricle, there went feveral livid fpecks and traces 
of inflammation, tending in like manner to gan- 
grene. The heart did alfo, throughout its whole 
furface, adhere very clofely to the pericardium ; 
and the whole outer furface of the pericardium, as 
clofely, to the lungs. The other vifcera were 
- quite found. 
So that the mifchief here was properly a contu- 
fion of the heart ; the edge of the plate having 
(truck it, probably at the inflant of its greateit di- 
aftole. This produced an inflammation on its fur- 
face, followed by a gangrene, and terminating in 
that double adhefion : by which the whole heart 
was fad tied up j till on this account, as well as 
by reafon of the mortification, it was no longer 
able to circulate the blood. 
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