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CASE 98.—Post-mortem examination twenty-three hours
after death: There was much emaciation. The lungs were
adherent on both sides, congested posteriorly and contained
crude tubercle and several chalky concretions; the apex of
the right lung contained also a small vomica about the size
of the thumb-nail. There were two ounces of yellow
transparent serum and two yellow coagula in the pericardium;
on the surface of the heart was a serous effusion which
appeared around the auricular appendices as a jelly. There
were three ounces of a turbid, reddish liquid in the
abdominal cavity; the mesenteric glands were softened; the
liver was small and soft; the spleen semi-fluid; the kidneys
normal; the stomach eroded and ecchymosed; Peyer's patches
exhibited the shaven-beard appearance; the rectum was much
ulcerated; the bladder distended with urine.—