A Remarkable MalfoyiKalion in a Cat. 55 



The changes necessitated in the position and ])erforation of 

 the diaphragm, due to the shifted organs, may be readily 

 inferred. Among the transposed abdominal organs were the 

 following : the stomach and spleen were on the right, in cor- 

 rect relation and position otherwise; the liver on the left; 

 and the duodenum and the land marks of the intestines were 

 all reversed in position. The left kidney proved to be con- 

 siderably cephalad of its fellow, thus again reversing the 

 usual order, and the arrangement of renal arteries and veins 

 for each side was that of the other. 



The great nerves traversing the thorax were also reversed, 

 as regards relation to organs and branching.''- 



'■'Note. — Since the above was written, I have received, through the kindness of 

 Mr. C. P. Sigerfoos, a Bulletin of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Vol. IV, No. 28, contain- 

 ing a record of a similar peciiliarity in a dog found in the Biological I^aboratory of 

 the I'niversity, and reported by Theodore Hough. D. S. K. 



