Dr. Granville on a mal-conf urination , &c. 30 g 
to be mentioned than the one which it is the purport of the 
present letter to describe ; and when I reflect on the many im- 
portant researches you have made on this interesting subject, 
I feel confident, that you will find the contents of the following 
pages worthy of your attention ; since the case they record ap- 
pears to me to stand single in the annals of descriptive anatomy. 
It is for this reason, therefore, that I shall confine myself to 
its description alone, leaving any other information I may pos- 
sess on the subject, as matter for future correspondence. 
Early in June 1817 , 1 was summoned to attend the opening 
of the body of a woman aged 40, who died at La Maternite, 
six or seven days after delivery, of what had long been sus- 
pected to be a disease of the heart, or of some of the larger 
vessels. This conjecture was not ill founded ; for on examining 
the contents of the thorax, an aneurism of the aorta was dis- 
covered, together with a considerable enlargement of the heart. 
As a subject for secondary consideration, it may not be im- 
proper to mention, also, that the bronchise were found lined 
by a beautifully formed membrane, entirely detached from 
their inner surfaces, and admitting of being extracted without 
deranging its tubiform structure ; yet, the patient had never 
complained of any disorder of the respiratory organs. 
Our attention, however, during dissection, was soon engaged 
by a still more curious anatomical arrangement, which pre- 
sented itself to our view on the examination of the abdominal 
viscera. The womb, half concealed by the intestines, and im- 
mersed in a considerable quantity of serous fluid, being four 
times at least the size of what it is in the unimpregnated state, 
was lying in its natural position. On clearing it from all the 
surrounding parts, it was found that this viscus had acquired 
