XI. An uncommon anatomical observation addressed to the Royal Society, by John Baptist Paitoni, Physician at Venice: Translated from the Italian

Abstract

My duty as physician to the magistrate of health obliging me to be present at the opening of the bodies of those who die suddenly, in order to examine into the hidden causes of their deaths, gives me frequent opportunities of observing remarkable and singular phaenomena; one of these, which (amongst many others) I remarked in the course of the present year at the dissection of a young woman, I do myself the honor of communicating to this Society; nor do I doubt its being received with indulgence by them, when I consider that the Royal Society was institued for the most laudable end of the improvement of arts and sciences, and that of rendering them seviceable to mankind.