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April 1764

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The Information of James Moffat< no role > and Joseph
Randall
< no role > Surgeons taken as before mentioned

Being severally an Oath jointly say that they opened and
inspected into the body of Ann Davis< no role > deceased and say that
they found a large black spot between the Colter bone and Second
Ribb an the rights side. A Wound upon the Head a little before
and above the Situation of the middle of the left Parietal bone
about the Size of a Shilling. Upon opening the Chest the Lungs
an the right Side never very black and Swiming in about a
pint and a half of Purulet matter. There was no Adhesion
of the Lungs as this side a piece of them being put into Water
it was Scarsely Supported thereby, On the left Side of the Chest
the Fifth and Sixth Ribbs were broken and the Pleura
which made the living of the parts of the bones which were
fractured was very thin and had several little holes in it, There
was a little thick matter between the fractured part of each Bone
and a little matter seem'd mixt with so me bloody Serum which
lay loose in the cavity of this side of the Chest. About the
place of the Wound on the Head the Scalp was seperated from the
Bone about the Size of an Ooal whose greatest Diameter is
two Inches and an half and do Traverse Diameter is one Inch &
an half. The bone being removed Matter appeared upon the
Dura Mater which was under the Bone which had been
Injured and also upon the Pia Mater and the Brain was
of a dark Colour as tho it had been enflamed. All the parts
within the Skall which appeared diseased were immediately
within the part which reced the external Injury. From all
the Circumstances which me have been able to Collect




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