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Show Offeeer. $0 g.- llIorbid anatomy ceed the disturbance of the sensorial functions, shows the head exempt from disorganization. Fizeau (Ficzfres iiztcrmitt. Paris,1803, p. 134-8) found every thing either perfectly sound or only a little serum in the tissue of the pia mater, three scruples in each lateral ventricle, and about an ounce at the base of the cranium- them impracticable. ‘ my astonihsment, a well preserved brain. I examined it with the most scrupulous care. (K Mr. Womrath dissected it minutely in the {t presence of several surgeons. It would be in vain to say that the changes of structure are too minute to be detected. I have excellent eyes and am too well acquainted with the state of the brain not to be able to per« ceive alterations on looking after them care" fully." rThe same result is offered by other sometimes was what is called putrid 0r bilious, or bilious putrid,Dr. La Berthonaye opened three subjects: The brain and chest were found quite sound (for! gains, [)arfailemenzf wins) in all, though the head had been greatly affected. r"; l .4 intestines, and liver, were so compleatly gangrenous as to render an exact examination of bulk and otherwise altered. So the other viscera. During a fever at Toulon, in 176], which thendouble-tertian, and lastly continued, and "435W m abdominal viscera, the omentum, the stomach, whereas the spleen was five times its natural often appeared in the same individual as tertian, I p. 268. The patient died, says the author, " a " terrible example of the malignity which may " associate itselfwith intermittent fever." The " But this man had, to <4 The stomach alone appeared to be the seat of disease, its sides being coated in the first and second with different laminae ofa bilious efi‘uu peatedly suffered from an acute supervcning upon a chronic disorder. J. G. de S. Audrien sion of the consistence ofjelly, and of a deep became insane, as it is supposed, from the lead- mulberry color. cholic. He had a fever which left him still insane. Some months afterwards he was again seized with fever and died. Nothing uncom~ mon in the brain. The whole colon was marked with black spots, internally and externally-- In the third, the epiploon was nearly mortified-the gall bladder full of clotted hile oftlic colour of thcriaca-thc pylorus COR" tracttd, inflamed, and adherent to the pancreas: which was sehirrous. ltr. (‘asimir Medicus. in the large collectiol'2 o ‘? dissections of patients, whose sensorium has re= G gall- u. --um vs .ng. The anatomy ofintermittent fevers frequently "a." 3-" fiw‘ p. 243 270) relates a case where quotidian ague supervened upon epilepsy. Nothing could ex- A _-,.-n»~w--- of his observations (Sammlzmg Zurich, 1776, greater diffusion of diseased action compenw sating the intensity. |