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Case at the Hospitals of Alexandria, Va.
CASE 75.—Post-mortem
examination: The meningeal vessels were pale and watery, as
were those of the vascular processes in the lateral
ventricles; serum was effused beneath the arachnoid and
lymph at the vertex and over the base of the brain; the
cerebral substance was pale, soft and anæmic, and
the ventricles contained serum with some lymph.
The spinal cord was soft. The glands at the root of each
lung contained calcareous deposits. The liver was large; the
spleen soft and pulpy; the bladder largely distended.