faw in the place of the hfeatl. b. ■ a 
diaphragm , at lead no diftincf one 
which extended itfelf juft under the r; 
bundle of intedines, and a little red mil' , 
called the liver, for want of a better name 
it feemed, that, when I pulled tire umbilici', 
this fubftance moved, which induced me to Ik.. 
that the umbilical vein entered there. 
No domach, fpleen, pancreas, or kidneys were 
feen. 
The intedinal mafs was divided into two portions.. 
The hrd was of a reddifh colour, which terminated 
upwards in a blind pouch, and below joined the other 
portion, as the ileum does where it unites with the 
colon and caecum. This fecond portion was wh be, 
and feemed to include the large intedines. The 
caecum was very long, or rather the caecum and its 
appendix vermi-Jbrmis were of the fame fize. 
Thus, there was neither jejunum , or duodenum , 
or domach, or any liver properly fpeaking : for that, 
which I found in the place of it, was a red vijius, 
and of the conglomerate kind, like the kidney in a 
foetus. Having cleared it from all its adhedons, I 
difeovered neither veffels analogous to thofe or the 
t Jinus of the vena portae^ or any thing that reicmbled 
due figure of the liver, or of any of its appurtenances. 
I opened it, and was more and more convinced that 
it was rather a kidney, or knot of renal glands, than 
a liver, although it was one mafs, and placed in the 
midd of the intedines ; it had dill lefs the refemblance 
of a heart, having no cavity, no veflels, or any muf- 
c.ular fibres. 
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