of Dr. maty’s lajl Illnefs , See. 6 1 1 
trailed, but of the fame livid colour, and the furface of 
the gut there was almoft as unequal as the fafciculated 
furfaces in the heart ; the effeit, probably, of univerfal 
ulceration there, which had been a part of, or a compa- 
nion to, the fiftula, of which he had been cured by the 
operation; for, on that part, the villous coat of the in- 
teiiine was deftroyed. 
TO this account, more particularly of the two laft 
weeks of Dr. maty’s illnefs, and of the appearances upon 
opening the body, as drawn up by Dr. hunter, I lhall 
beg leave to add the few following remarks. 
The heart and lungs were indeed neither of them 
eflentially difeafed ; yet there was a whitilh fpot, about 
the breadth of a fix-pence, upon the right ventricle of 
the heart, near its apex ; a rough border on the left fide 
of the diaphragm, as if the lungs had been glued to that 
part and torn off again; a partial adhefion of the lungs 
to the pleura; and a little purulent fluid within the peri- 
cardium. Certainly thefe were fome figns of a flight in- 
flammation having attacked the membranes inverting 
the contents of the thorax. Neither can we fuppofe fuch 
appearances to have exifted without occafioning fome 
uneafinefs : they were, perhaps, fufficient to account for 
4 K 2, that 
