C E R T I F I C A T F. O F THE P O S T - M O R T E M

Scarce were the outward téguments of the lower belly opened, but there issued an insupportable smell.

The muscles mortified, and the epiploon almost wholly decayed.

Upon the opening of the peritoneum, there was found a great quantity of matter extremely offensive.

The colour of the liver was a yelowish white, the substance of it being quite withered and rotten.

The bladder of the gall full of a high coloured bile.

The spleen was good, the left rein was much decayed, and not corrupted ; as for the right, it was good, and without a fault.

The begining of the duodénum and the pylo-

* Voyez ci-dessus, p. i 2 \, n. 2 et p. i 27.

LA VIE ET LA MORT bE MADAME.

rus discoloured with the same bile that was found in the bladder of the gall, and even of a higher colour.

As to the other intestines, they were very much altered and almost wholly gangrened, yet some more than others ; amongst the rest the ileum and the jéjunum.

As to the stomach, it was found very sound, the members being very fîrm, which, notwithstanding, in their inward superficies were wholly covered by the abovesaid bile to the very œsophagus.

The breast being opened, the heart was found very whole, whithout any default, and in the capacity of her whole breast was observed a very considérable quantity of matter like to that of the lower belly.

As for the lungs, they were found to stick to the ribs on the left side, and its substance filled with a very corrupt matter, which in the right side was indifferently filled with corruption.

So that it was very boiling bile, very corrupt and malign, and very impetuous, wich caused ail the disorders in the abovesaid parts, and gangrened them.

Vallot, La Chambre, etc., etc.

APPENDtCÊ IV.

Note B.

CHAMBERLAIn's CERTIFICATE.

Being commanded by his Excellency the English Ambassador to attend at the dissecting Madame's corps, I observed at the opening of her lower belly an offensive air to breathe forth.

Mer epiploon was tinged with a deep yellow bile, and putrefied.

AU her bowels were more or less of the same tincture inflated, and incHning towards a gangrené.

Her liver was of an ash-colour, rotten and without blood.

Her reins were indiffèrent : the left, the worst.

Her spleen was good.

Her stomach was lined wilh that adust bile, and 80 was the œsophagus up to her throat.

In the middle venter her heart was well, but her lungs, on the left side, were adhering, and being opened on that side there issued only an ichorous humidity ; on the right side they were better conditioned, but not of the due colour.

Both venters were repleted with bilious humours and an oil tlodting there on.

Her finger's ends were livid.