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guifh the head and feet. The corpfe was wrapped 
round with two or three large layers of cere-cloth, 
fo exadlly applied to the parts, that the piece, which 
covered the face, retained the exadt impreffion of 
the eyes and nofe. The dura mater was entire. The 
"brain was of a dark afn colour, with fome remaining 
appearance of the medullary part. The coats of the 
eye were flill whole, and had not totally loft their 
gliftening appearance. There was about half a pint 
©f a bloody-black water in the thorax ; and a mafs 
that feemed to be part of the lungs. The pericar- 
dium and diaphragm were quite entire. The abdo- 
minal vifcera had been taken out very clean, and the 
integuments and mufcles ftuck very clofe to the ver- 
tebras of the back. This cavity looked frefher than 
that of the thorax. I cut into the pfoas magnus, 
where there were evident marks of red mufcular fibres. 
The other mufcles had loft all their red colour, and 
were become of a dark brown. The tendons were 
ftill ftrong, and retained their natural appearance. 
The hands, which are preferved in fpirits, retain the 
nail*. There were fome very fmall holes in the 
coffin, o-ut of which had run fome bloody water, of 
an offenfive fmell. All the principal blood-veflels 
muft have been cut through, in taking out the ab- 
dominal vifcera : and if no ligature was made upon- 
the veffeis, their contents would efcape, particularly 
as affifted by the pre-fibre of the cere-cloth, which is 
of confiderable weight, and, doubtlefs, put on hot. 
This fluid running out of the coffin, upon its being 
moved, might occafion the fufpicion of the body 
being put in pickle.” 
Thus 
