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Case from the case-book of the SATTERLEE HOSPITAL,
CASE 168.—Autopsy: Body not much emaciated; skin waxen; no spots of purpura. Recent pleurisy, with pseudomembranous attachment throughout, on both sides. Extensive tubercular deposit of recent origin throughout both lungs, besides a few old tubercles, together with several small cavities the size of filberts, at the apices of the lungs. Bronchitis; enlargement of the bronchial glands. Heart soft and flabby, and easily lacerable; its cavities distended with currant-jelly-like clots. Liver soft, but otherwise apparently normal. Spleen of medium size, with condensation and blackening of portions of its structure, as evidences of former inflammation. Stomach, pancreas, and kidneys normal. Lymphatic glands of the abdomen generally somewhat enlarged through an increase of the corpuscular element. Tuberculous deposit, accompanied with ulcers, in the lowest agminated glands. Most extensive ulceration of the mucous membrane of the cæcum. A few small tubercles here and there in the walls of the much-contracted colon. Ecchymosed spots here and there in the ileum, and small irregular patches at the ascending and terminal portions of the large intestine.—Acting Assistant Surgeon Joseph Leidy. [No. 86, Medical Section,