Medical transactions / Royal College of Physicians of London.

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    very confiderable quantity of an aque¬ ous fluid. Upon cutting into the lungs* a frothy mucus, mixt with fomething purulent and of a foetid fmell, iflued from every part, but principally from the divided bronchia: this matter was more in quantity from the left lobe; but no cavity, ulcer, or abfcefs, were obferved any where.—Upon opening the pericardium, the heart appeared of an uncommon fize, and was covered with a great quantity of fat; the pe¬ ricardium contained not lefs than a oint of fluid.—Upon examining the 'leart, no part appeared difeafed, till we opened the left ventricle; and there, the femilunar valves, placed at the origin of the aorta, were found to be perfectly oflified. They did not, as ufual, lie flat upon the divided orifice of the veflel; but flood eredt, and appeared to be immoveable. They were entirely ofleous through their Vol. III. C whole