Medical transactions / Royal College of Physicians of London.

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    whole fubftance; but the oflification was formed unevenly, and as it were in fpines, fome parts being near a line in thicknefs, and others thin like a conne&ing membrane, but perfe&ly boney.—The aorta was at its cur- J vature confiderably enlarged; and for near an inch from the heart, was in part oflified; there being feveral bony fcales or lamihse in it, but not con¬ nected with one another. In confidering the morbid appear¬ ances difcovered by difieCtions, it is neceffary to diftinguilh accurately the caufe from the effects; otherwife we fhall form a wrong idea of the difeafe, and reafon injudicioufly. Thus in the prefent cafe, though the preflu re on the heart and lungs, from an extraor¬ dinary quantity of fat, a large effulion of liquids into the cavity of the thorax, and within the pericardium, and a vaft accumulation of blood in the fub- fiance of the lungs themfelves, mull 2 necefiarily