Sectio cadaveris, April 36th, 1829. — '^^^ distension of the abdomen
was very great, and the recti muscles were spread like a panniculus
carnosus over the abdomen. A puncture being made, above two
pailsful of green fluid were drawn off, turbid, and containing some
shreds of recent coagulable matter; the parietes were then laid
open, and were found to be adherent in some parts by tolerably
firm adhesions to a large sac, which now appeared to occupy the
whole abdomen. The viscera were all tlirust by this so far upwards,
as to lie within a line drawn across from one false rib to another.
The colon was seen of a black colour, projecting at the top, greatly
distended with flatus, and looking hke another large cyst. The
whole of the cyst was covered with slireds of lymph, showing
recent inflammatory action ; and the colon was glued to the cvst, to
the liver, and to the stomach. When these adventitious unions were
broken down, the whole of the small intestines were found closely



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compacted together below the inferior part of the colon, and the
cysts united to each other by a dark gray or black fibrinous deposit.
