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Show qffever. ' 5‘2: 53 ZlIorbid anatomy purulent effusion into the left cavity of the thorax, the substances of the brain and of the cerebellum full ofred blood vessels ; the superior Convulsions, loss of speech, rigidity of tendons preceding death, abscess in the brain was denoted: whereas tension in the abdomen and hiccup certainly portended suppuration of some longitudinal sinus much dilated by coagulated abdominal viscus."--Vandermonde, viii. p 362 blood; a little more liquor than common in the ventricles of the brain."'* Vandermmzde xi. 57-77, --373. Of the‘(yellow) fever, which raged at Leghorn Of a malignant pestilential epidemic of lower. Provence, it is stated by Darlue, "that, on opening different bodies, there was discovered in the principal viscera of the abdomen an in- flammation that had partly terminated in abscesses, partly in gangrene. This chiefly attacked the liver, which we found enlargedy the gall-bladder greatly distended and full of green bile, the intestines mortified in divers spots, the vessels of the brain much gorged with blood and an ichorous matter efl‘used into in the summer of 1804, Thiebault reports, (that there were few of the viscera which it did not leave sometimes sound, sometimes gane grenous, or at least with black spots on the sure face. This alteration was especially seen on the concave part of the liver, the inner surface of the stomach and intestines, often in the right side of the lungs and diaphragm: the abdominal viscera, and still more the abdominal muscles, were excessively flabby and tender. The cavities of the thorax and abdomen, the the thorax. pericardium and the ventricles o-fthe brain contained a yellow liquid, often foetid and of a r i 'ir 4.13UW maul ,l a It may be right to add, that " the accidental Sl'mP" toms were bitter taste, nausea, vomiting, diarrhcea, worms, pain at the pit of the stomach or under the xiphoid cartilage, in the abdomen augmented on pressure, oppression, pain of chest, throat, internal heat, with thirst, tongue black, dry, rough; pain of the neck, side, back, loins, in all the jointS and muscles of the extremities---more rarely bloody flux 01' \‘0' miting, haemorrhage from the nose, swellings in the arms 0r legs which suppurate or discharge without suppuration, furuncull, deafness, defluxions from the eyes or nose changing from Side to side, and impared sight or blindness, cured by swelling and running of the legs 5 few parotids, I saw but tW0-" dark bloody tinge. The superficial vessels of the viscera, especially those of the brain and intestines, appeared dilated, and their extremities tilled with a black matter. "Nothing was found constant but the gangrenous nature ofrthe alterations and their being more concentrated on the stomach and intestines than in the otherviscera." Recucil Period. xxiii. 12-". Palloni (Os-sew we. flkd.1.iv0rno, 1804) gives a very similar account. In his (lisections, the force of disease I: 3 Couvul- still |