Afr. c heston’s Account of cm 
3 3 The Coats of the du£t did not appear to have under- 
gone any morbid change: for in fome places where the 
fuhftance it contained was not fo ftrongly abac e m 
i i orirY-tit of Heine rsni£d iiom it 5 tiicy 
that the coat would admit ot bem„ r 
were found in a perfeft natural condition. At oth 
places, where the attachment was infeparab e, there was 
1 greater appearance of oflification externally ; but this 
we were convinced arofe merely from the thinnefs of 
the coats in that part, where the receptaculum chyh was 
laid open, the fuhftance within it appears o a me 
« nature very fimilar to that found n the vena 
cava of this fame fubjeft, but more laminated W pre 
fumed, that the fame kind of membrane nad been con- 
tinued through the whole of the duft, but was now be- 
come pretty completely offrfied in all that portion of the 
duft which we were in poffeffion of. 
A toll body, refembling a lymphatic gland on 
fide of the upper part of the drift, was opened by Mr J. 
huhtex, who found the fame offific difpo&ion m this 
little body, as we before noticed in the dnft ufelf. 
We next examined the fuhftance that partly filled up 
the vena cava. It was in length about four inches; ft 
the upper end, broad and conical; at the lower much 
narrower and rather rounded. Its furface appea ^ 
gular and granulated with fmall bony 
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