Medical transactions / Royal College of Physicians of London.

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    On opening the thorax, the lungs, pericardium, and heart, appeared per¬ fectly found. But on dividing the mediaftinum at the upper and lower part,, there oozed out of both inci- fions a confiderable quantity of thick white fluid of a purulent appearance, exa , fimilar to what he had ex- No particular cyft could be difcovered; but the fluid feemed to be diffufed through the cellular fubftance interjpofed between the mem¬ branes which form the mediaftinum. I examined the trachea, in hopes of finding an aperture, through which the fluid had pafled; but was doubt¬ ful whether an opening, which had fome appearance of laceration, might not have been made by the difiector’s knife; however, on dividing the trachea, it manifeftly contained a fluid of the like purulent appearance, as was found in the mediaftinum, and had before been expectorated. The