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<P>AN ACCOUNT OF THE DISSECTION OF HIS HIGHNESS WILLIAM Duke of <HI>GLOCESTER.</HI></P>
<P>Drawn up by Doctor <HI>H.</HI> and Sign'd by Him, and by the Surgeons.</P>
<P>From the Original Letter, that was &s;ent over to his Maje&s;ty in <HI>Holland.</HI></P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>J. Nutt,</HI> near <HI>Stationers</HI>-Hall, 1700.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="account of a post mortem">
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<HEAD>AN ACCOUNT OF THE DISSECTION OF HIS HIGHNESS <HI>WILLIAM</HI> Duke of <HI>GLOCESTER.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_UPon the Death of his Highne&s;s</HI> William <HI>Duke of</HI> Gloce&s;ter, <HI>which happened on</HI> Monday, July <HI>the Twenty Ninth, about Midnight, The Right Honourable the Earl of</HI> Marleborough, <HI>One of their Excellencies the Lords Ju&s;tices of</HI>
<PB N="2" REF="3">England, <HI>and Governour to His late Highne&s;s was plea&s;ed to give order, That the Body &s;hould be Opened.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Accordingly the Surgeons appointed by His Lord&s;hip, who&s;e names are &s;ub&s;cribed, in the pre&s;ence of Doctor</HI> Hannes, <HI>who was command|ed to a&s;&s;i&s;t at the Operation, and of &s;everal other Spectators, made the Di&s;&s;ection; and, after|wards, jointly with the Doctor, gave in the following Report of it on</HI> Wedne&s;day, July <HI>the Thirty Fir&s;t,</HI> 1700.</P>
<P N="1">1.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Surface of the Body.</NOTE> On in&s;pection of the outward Surface of the Dukes Body; His Head, Che&s;t, Ab|domen and Arms appear'd tainted and livid, beyond what is u&s;ual: His Thighs and Leggs not much altered from their proper colour.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Abdomen was fir&s;t opened; and the&s;e Ob&s;ervations made upon the Parts Contained.</P>
<P>The Omentum was found as is natural.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Belly.</NOTE></P>
<P>The Gutts, from the Rectum, inclu&s;ively, upwards to the Duodenum, had the common appearances; excepting only, that a few in|flammatory Spots were &s;een di&s;pers'd upon the Small Gutts; and, that the Plexus Glandulares of the &s;ame Gutts were become Florid, and therefore more con&s;picu|ous, than is u&s;ual.</P>
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<P> The Duodenum and Stomach were highly inflamed; e&s;pecially, the Stomach; which had in its Cavity, Wind, and a &s;mall quan|tity of Liquor.</P>
<P>In the Pancreas, Spleen, Liver, and Bladder of Gall was nothing remarkable: Only the Spleen and Liver were more than ordinary Livid.</P>
<P>The Kidneys carried a colour deeper than is common, be&s;ides which, they were not no|ted to have any thing Preternatural: As nei|ther had the Glandulae Renales, nor the Ure|teres, nor the Urinary Bladder, nor the Urine expre&s;s'd from the Bladder.</P>
<P N="3">3. Next after the Abdomen, the Thorax,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Che&s;t.</NOTE> or Che&s;t was examined.</P>
<P>Here, the Pleura was inflamed to the mo&s;t inten&s;e degree.</P>
<P>The Diaphragm, and Media&s;tinum, and Pericardium were thought not to differ from the con&s;titution given 'em by Nature; except|ing only, that the Diaphragm was &s;omething inflamed.</P>
<P>The Humor of the Pericardium was red|di&s;h; not without a mixture of Blood. And even the Thorax and Abdomen were judged to have more Blood in their Cavity, than
<PB N="4" REF="4">could well proceed from the mouths of the Ve&s;&s;els cut a&s;under by the Knife at the time the re&s;pective Venters were laid open.</P>
<P>The Heart was extremely Flaccid and weak in its Texture: The Right Ventricle had ve|ry little Blood, and the Left was altogether Empty.</P>
<P>The Lungs on both &s;ides were filled with Blood to the height of an Inflammation.</P>
<P N="4">4.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Neck.</NOTE> The Neck was Swoll'n: And upon Di&s;&s;ection the inclo&s;ed Parts appear'd &s;uch, as they are ob&s;erved in Bodies &s;trangled.</P>
<P>At the place where the Jugulars ari&s;e a|bove the Claviculae, the Inflammation ap|proach'd very near to a Mortification.</P>
<P>The Glandulae Thyreoideae were almo&s;t black with the contain'd Blood: and being put into Scales were found above Five Drachms in weight.</P>
<P>The Gulet was much Inflamed; the Wind|pipe al&s;o was affected in the &s;ame kind, e&s;pecially the upper part of it call'd the Larynx.</P>
<P>In the Larynx the Membranes that join the Cartilages Cricoides and Thyreoides were ve|ry dark with the Inflammation.</P>
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<P> The Membrane that lines the Epiglottis (at the root of the Tongue) was al&s;o Infla|med: in&s;omuch that the Glandulae Miliares of it, which are &s;carce vi&s;ible at other times, were here much di&s;tended and very con&s;picuous.</P>
<P N="5">5.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Throat.</NOTE> In the Mouth, we found the Palate in|flamed; as al&s;o the Uvula, the Membrane of which was &s;well'd.</P>
<P>The Almonds of the Ear (in the Throat) were &s;well'd; and had in them Purulent mat|ter: There being pre&s;s'd out of one of 'em as much Corruption, as fill'd a Tea-&s;poon.</P>
<P N="6">6. La&s;t of all, The Head was opened;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Head.</NOTE> and out of the Fir&s;t and Second Ventricle of the Cerebrum were taken about four Ounces and an Half of a Lympid Humor.</P>
<P>In this Region nothing, be&s;ides, was found particular, or different from the natural &s;tate of it.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Signed <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> Ca&s;tle, <DATE>July 31. 1700.</DATE></DATELINE>
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<ITEM><HI>Edward Hannes</HI> M.D.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Charles Bernard.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edward Green.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Cowper.</HI></ITEM>
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