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CASE 7.—Post-mortem examination five
hours and a half after death: The brain was normal. The
larynx and trachea were healthy; the right lung weighed
twenty ounces and a half, the left seventeen ounces, the
lower lobe of each in a state of red hepatization and the
inferior portion of the upper lobe of the right lung
congested; the heart was normal. The liver weighed
seventy-two ounces and was somewhat flabby; the spleen
sixteen ounces; several of Peyer's patches were ulcerated;
the solitary glands much enlarged and many of them
ulcerated; the left kidney somewhat congested.—