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ftrua, which ufed to relieve her a few days from her 
diforder. At the above age, after having been fiiig- 
ing and dancing with her friends in the Carnival time, 
being taken luddenly with a cough more violent than 
ufual, and a Ihortnefs of breath, die dropped into 
the arms of one of her acquaintance, and vomiting 
at the fame time a little ferous and frothy liquor, died 
immediately. 
The body being opened the next morning in the 
prefenceof fomeof the college of phyficians,the vifcera 
of the lower cavity were firfl examined and found 
quite found j the ftomach only was a little extended, 
owing to what the deceafed had eaten a few moments 
before her death ; but the caufe of her death was 
found in the thorax, the right lobe of her lungs be- 
ing wanting, as will appear by the following de- 
fcription. 
The external membrane, which ought to cover the 
right lobe of the lungs, was of a livid colour, and 
adhered to the pleura. This membrane being cut 
through, inftead of the true lobe, there was found 
in its place a membranous bag of a milky colour, 
without any vifible outlet, and much of the fame 
fize as that part of the lungs which was wanting. 
This bag being opened, there came out into the 
thorax a ferous fluid, void of fmell, which being 
Ipread upon the table was found, as to figure, colour, 
and fubftance, much to refemble a cuttle filh ; nor 
do I doubt but fome whimfical naturalifls, who make 
it their bufinefs to furprife the common people, by 
the relation of miraculous events, would have de- 
clared that they faw part of the lungs changed into a 
cuttle flfli. 
It 
