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CASE 190.—Post-mortem examination: The lungs were normal
excepting a slight adhesion to the pericardium on the left
side. The right cavities of the heart were dilated and
filled with fluid blood; their walls were thinned. The liver
weighed sixty-four ounces; the spleen twelve ounces. The
stomach and the upper part of the duodenum were much
congested. The ileum was congested, especially in its lower
part, which was thickened and inflamed and in Peyer's
patches ulcerated; the ileo-cæcal valve was much thickened and ulcerated.
The mucous membrane of the colon was congested and softened
and hundreds of its solitary follicles were ulcerated; the
rectum also was congested and softened. The kidneys were
congested.—