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Abstract

and their capsules loosely attached, so that they were easily peeled off. On section, the organs had a pale and oily appearance. The spleen weighed 5:` ounces: its substance was soft, and of a tarry and oily ap. pearance as the lung. The stomach contained some fluid nourish. ment mixed with mucus; its coats had the general yellowish altered appearance, but no erosion or congestion could be observed. The brain was not examined. On microscopical examination, the organs were all found to have undergone fatty degeneration. This was most marked in the liver; its cells had disappeared more or less completely, and in their places separate globules of oil were seen to be studded all over. The muscular fibres of the heart had lost the striated appearance, and were covered with. minute molecules of oil. Extensive fatty change was noticed in the granular epithelium of the kidneys. All these sections for the microscope showed the deep brownish-yellow bile staining markedly.