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CASE 159.—Post-mortem examination on the
day of death: Rigor mortis well marked; body moderately emaciated.
The trachea was lined with frothy sputa of a molasses color; the
right lung normal externally, was studded internally with melanic
spots about the size of peas, it weighed twelve ounces; the left
lung was healthy, it weighed seven ounces and a half. The right side
of the heart contained a large firm black clot. A considerable
quantity of pus was observed on the omentum; the spleen, fourteen
ounces and a half, was firm and of a bluish-slate color; the liver,
seventy-eight ounces, appeared to be normal; the kidneys were
healthy. Peyer's patches were extensively ulcerated and the ulcers
had perforated in five places; the large intestine was normal. [See
Med. Sect.,