“We reasoned a long time about this odd appearance as well as we could, and all of us judging it inexplicable and unaccountable, and finding he still continued in that condition, we began to conclude that he had indeed carried the experiment too far, and at last were satisfied he was actually dead, and were just ready to leave him. “This continued about half an hour, by nine o’clock in the morning in autumn. As we were going away, we observed some motion about the Body, and upon examination found his Pulse and the motion of his Heart gradually returning: he began to breathe gently and speak softly; we were all astonished to the last degree at this unexpected change, and after some further conversation with him, and among ourselves, went away fully satisfied as to all the particulars of this fact, but confounded and puzzled, and not able to form any rational scheme that might account for it. He afterwards called for his attorney, added a codicil to his will, settled legacies on his servants, received the sacrament, and calmly and composedly expired about five or six o’clock that evening. Next day he was opened (as he had ordered) his Body was the soundest and best made I had ever seen; his Lungs were fair, large, and sound; his Heart big and strong, and his Intestines sweet and clean; his Stomach was of a due proportion, the Coats sound and thick, and the villous Membrane quite entire. But when we came to examine the Kidneys, though the left was perfectly sound, and of a just size, the right was about four times as big, distended like a blown Bladder, and yielding, as if full of pap; he having often passed a wheyish liquor after his urine, during his illness. “Upon opening this Kidney, we found it quite full of a white chalky matter, like plaister of Paris, and all the fleshy substance dissolved and worn away, by what I called a Nephritic Cancer. This had been the source of all his misery; and the symptomatic vomitings, from the irritation on the consentient Nerves, and quite starv’d and worn him down. I have narrated the facts as I saw and observ’d them deliberately and distinctly, and shall leave to the philosophic reader to make what inferences he thinks fit: the truth of the material circumstances I will warrant.”