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etructed, cither by a ligature or by a small spring 

 forceps, and the kidney on the same side then re- 

 7iioved, its vessels being previously secured. The im- 

 mediate effect of these measures would necessarily be 

 an extreme accumulation of blood in the aorta, and 

 a greatly increased supply to the vessels of the right 

 kidney, which, of course, remained in its natural 

 position, untouched and uninjured. The results are 

 expressed in table V.* 



TABLE V. 



* The. four first experiments on the list are those previously 

 published ; in the second, the occlusion of the aorta was n,,t 



complete. 



