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Show {it} Morbid anatomy offever. 67 empty, and so collapsed that the spleen was per» l l liquid. In the broad, well-formed chest, the lungs lay without adherences and expanded with air. Inthecavity of the thorax, especially in the left, there was a considerable quantity of dark~ t red serum: and astrong smell of musk arose from this cavity. 011 turning back the heart, the oesophagus from the diaphragm to beyond the atrium oenarum palm. was so sphacelated ' in its whole circumference, that scarce did there exist the smallest coherence between the fibres. Dr. Iteil, the assiduous and acute friend of the deceased, thinks the contractions in thS bowels were of long standing and the effect ofposture. Goldhagen, he says, rose in summer at four, and He did not interrupt his labours for compressed. He did neither standing. ~m-«r-vw 31,-, supper. When reading, he sat upright. But in writing, and he wrote a great deal, he stooped ; his head hanging forward and his abdomen The strictures then arose from the bowels being fre» quently and long compressed. Be this as it may, it appearsevident where inflammation had and had not been active. I am not sure that theexpression veryfirm, as applied to the consistence of the brain, is meant by the celebrated anatomist to convey the idea of disease. If it were, I can produce reasons for thinking that it might have had nothing to do with the fever. WWW ~1'rvv-w4. l 5: night. The pamphlet fortunately con- tains a history of the patient. He was a man of anxious mind, of indefatigable application, and addicted to profound meditation. "He took little exercise, except in visiting his patients; and this was of small service to his health, as his mental faculties were fully employed. His active spirit was so inured to constant exertion, that in his few and solitary walks, he pursued all sorts of deep and subtle speculations." This, in the present state of our knowledge concern- ing the causes of disorganization, might seem sufficient to account for a little deviation from the common structure in one, who must it should seem, have been advanced in life. F2 But this is and ""1" a ,5»; .r. A 3"}. C} and in winter at five, and studied till near mid- ceived projecting at its bottom. On its anterior surface was a fissure two inches long with a tender, thin, white margin, looking and feeling as if dissolved by putrefaction. On cutting the stomach up, the coats near the fissure were soft and extremely thin; and at the fissure quite destroyed. At some distance, the vessels of the villous and nervous coats were turgid with disSolved, dark blood, which, in places, had become effused into the cellular substance. The brain was very firm, the vessels mode" rately full of blood. Between the membranes and inthe ventricles there wasalittle colourless in m M09 El? , ‘u |