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of all those Females, who, among the Greeks, were called Tribades, or who followed the Practices of Sappho; on the contrary, her's was so far from any unusual Magnitude, that it was not to be ranked among the middle-sized, but the smaller. The left Fallopian Tube in her was three Times bigger than the right, which was of the proper Dimensions; it appeared as swelled and dried, and, both this, and the Ovarium sinistrum, were full of Hydatides, or minute Vesiculæ, containing an aqueous Matter.———All the other Parts of the Abdomen were in their natural State, and all flaccid; especially, I observed the Valvula of the Colon to be large, and quite closed. I examined afterwards a Piece of the Liver jointly with the Gall Bladder, which, after cleansing it from the

Bile,