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CASE 156.—Post-mortem examination: Some
ecchymoses along region of spine. Brain weighed forty-eight
ounces and a half; ventricles filled with serum and lymph.
Mouth, pharynx and larynx inflamed; œdema of glottis.
Right lung, eighteen ounces, lower lobe partially hepatized;
left lung, twenty-nine ounces, lower lobe hepatized red,
part of upper gray. Heart normal. Stomach normal; duodenum
slightly inflamed; some glairy mucus in small intestine;
hard black fæces impacting large intestine, by which, in
some places, the mucous membrane was slightly congested, in
others disorganized. Liver forty-seven ounces and a half;
spleen six ounces; kidneys each four ounces and a half.—