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fourteen pounds two ounces and an half, of the adi- 
pofe cellular confiftence j fome parts of it being 
more brawny than others. On dividing it through 
the center, were found feveral little cifts, containing 
a meliceratous fluid ; the whole feemed invelop’d in 
a membrane, which I apprehend to be the omen- 
tum, but the extenflon, from fo large a body con- 
tained in it, had made it almofl: loofe its reticular 
appearance. It was furrounded with many fmall 
blood-veflfels, but no conflderable ones. It adhered 
to the peritoneum, the back-bone, and almofl; all 
the internal cavity of the abdomen, refling the large 
end in the pelvis, and thereby greatly comprefling 
the bladder and ureters. The inteftines were all 
crouded together on the right flde, in as fmall a 
compafs as could poflibly contain them. The in- 
tefline colon pafled round the lower part, in the 
form of an S, which adhered likewife : it alfo in- 
velop’d the right kidney, which appeared fomething 
bigger than the other j and, upon dividing it, I found 
fmall flones, not exceeding the flze of a large pin’s 
head. The other kidney did not adhere to this fub- 
flance. The fmall end preflfed upwards againfl the 
diaphragm, fo hard, as to force the heart clofe under 
the left clavicula : the lungs were fo confined, as to 
render only one lobe capable of rcfpiration; the 
others appeared as in a flill-born child. The liver, 
gall-bladder, and fpleen, were as in health ; the in- 
teflines the fame j the mefentery was much extended 
with blood ; the matrix and ovaria as in their natu- 
ral flate ; and no other parts, that I could difcover, 
affedted. I could not difcover, on diflTeclion, any 
nuclei, that might particularly fupply, or give rife to, 
this enormous fubftance, 
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