Medical transactions / Royal College of Physicians of London.

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    rienced and accurate anatomift Mr, J. Hunter to open the body, which was done within 48 hours after his deceafe. But upon the moil careful examination no manifeft caufe of his death could be difcovered: the feat of the difeafe having beeja, as we may fuppofe, in feme oi thofe parts, the functions of which being not well underftood in life, we can find no traces of their diforders after death. In general the vifeera were well formed, and in a found ftate, with marks of great robuftnefs. The con¬ tents of the thorax were examined with peculiar attention, particularly the heart with its vefiels and valves, and were all found to be in a natural con¬ dition, except fome few fpecks of a beginning ollxfication upon the aorta, and fome adhefions of the lungs to the pleura on the left fide. The left ventricle of the heart was remarkably |lrong and thick, and as perfectly