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CASE 86.—Post-mortem examination: Brain fifty-six ounces, much congested. Trachea and bronchi congested and lined with
tenacious reddish-brown mucus. Right lung, thirty ounces,
congested, especially at the base; left, fifty-seven ounces,
solidified, adherent throughout by recent lymph and with
seven ounces of serum in the pleural sac. Pericardium contained four ounces of dark liquid like mulberry-juice; heart flabby, reddish-brown in color and filled with fibrinous clots. Intestines normal but Peyer's patches prominent. Liver seventy-one ounces; spleen twelve ounces and a half; pancreas three ounces;
right kidney five ounces and a half, left seven ounces—all apparently healthy.—