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all but extinct. I at one time detected some little oedema of the 
sheath (the only time and place where he ever shewed oedema), 
from which I began to suspect the presence of ascites. My mind, 
however, was quite relieved of this suspicion by examination 
of the belly, which I found not larger than natural; nor had it 
grown larger during his illness, even by the admeasurement of 
the roller which he had worn ever since his last admission. 
The attack of abdominal irritation he had on the day prior to 
that of his death, I parried and subdued by laudanum, followed 
up by an opening draught. It was renewed the next morning, 
and I ventured to abstract one quart of blood ; and it seemed to 
relieve a symptom now for the first time become not only observ¬ 
able, but even urgent; viz. a disturbed respiration: the pulse 
had sunk even to imperceptibility, but rose again after the quart 
of blood had flowed. He lived six hours after this, lying down 
and groaning, rising again and panting at the flanks ; until at 
length he fell, and died without a struggle. 
Post-mortem Examination. 
The thoracic viscera healthy; the liver clay-coloured ; the 
stomach distended with air, with its interior healthy; the small in¬ 
testines exhibiting patches of intense peritoneal redness; the 
larger healthy. A tumour, weighing from twenty-five to thirty 
pounds, was found attached round the root of the anterior mesen¬ 
teric artery, of a flattened, rounded form. On making an in¬ 
cision into it, one enormous irregular cavity appeared, filled with 
a grey-coloured fluid of a purulent character, with much flocculent 
caseous matter floating in it and thickly deposited on the walls of 
the cyst, and having a peculiar, sour, pungent, foetid smell. The 
parietes of the cyst were of a variable thickness, and of a fibro¬ 
cartilaginous structure ; and two large, distinct, and beautifully 
contrived bands, more than an inch in diameter, with numerous 
reticulated smaller ones, ran across it for the purpose of strength. 
NOTICE OF ERRATA. 
By Mr. Charles Dickins, F.S., Kimbolton. 
The object of these lines is to beg of you to correct a few errors 
made by your printer as connected with my last communication, 
which you have done me the honour to insert in your intelligent 
publication; but which, as they now stand, are calculated to 
make me appear ridiculous. The first of which is, you make me 
to say the umbilical veins were not affected; but I hope you will 
