An Account of the Opening of the Body of a Boy, Who Dyed Suddenly, and What ObservableWas Found Therein. By Dr. Charles PrestonAuthor(s): Charles PrestonSource: Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 19 (1695 - 1697), pp. 362-364Published by: The Royal SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/102330 .

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I. Sn Acso¢nt of tle Opening 0f - tbe Body z3f 4 Boys w1oo lDypd Sgddenly, dad wbat Obfer- sable was found there*X. By Dr, Ckarles PrcIlon

rx E ING called to £he DiSedion of a Boy, about D Nine Years of Age, who Dyed fuddeniy, be ing takea ill with a Fit of Yomiting, a little before his Deathwith the Chyrurgion one Moafieur L) Linier, Operator to Monf-stur D- Mctn3, svhat we foalnd moIS emarkable is as follows :

FirR in the lower Belly, after having laid open the common Integuments, we diScovered the left TeRi cle out of its natural place, drawn up above tlle atoF te%roJ-e, o-r holes of the ffiree MxJcles; of the Abdo- atens whicl] gTves paffiagp to the Spet matick VeSels in Men that go to rhe Micles, andto ehe round Lxgatnent of the Matris :n Women.

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In the Stomach we fourJd a- Worrn of abeut Wine Irxches ln length, a-lld a Line and halfbroad as alfo a Ind-of nimy Matter: - the Liqllor containe ed in the Stomach was black, whether it had its (::olour from lome Elemedies preScribed againIt his Vomitingffl or was the efEetot d Come DiiaSet Iv ca.nnor deterrxllau

In the iconld Cavity, -the Lungs were tyed to the Plegra on the right fde} but were free on tlle left; in the left there utas trl IntRamation of the Plewra, with feme Matters as alfo an luflama- tton of the External tunique of t-he Lungst

Tr] Diffie&ing the Heart, we found a large lnolyS pg in the lefw Zeatrisle-, whicll filled the te P!nnonaris s and entred the left ilgricgles :bou,c Eight Inches in Iength and Two Fingers btoad.

Tn the right Vientricle, there was alSo a Po- Sypg of about an lach in length, which was- fo big, that it almoflc Foppcd the entrance of- the Blootl into the Deta cata aiceadeas.

LaRly, Iro lZi«eAing the 13rain, we found alfo a confaderal)le Folypm, in e Si= Longitgdit nowl": All othcr thirlgs were according to Nae ture

Fronn what is here obfisrved, it IS- eafile to Conjedure the Canfie both of his Vom¢ting, as

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t 364 ) alfb of hs ( adden Death; and becau(b 1r w*we requ fite Sor Explioning this A4ateery tO giVs AS At** count of the Nature of a PoSypa, and hew they are formed; wbich being lufficientiy dore by ¢&e Learlied Malpighi and otherss tO WhQ> i 7^co ier; it {hall fiuflice that I givW a vbre Relato^t- of what was found, and leave every WIar} to make his own Reflexion

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