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jiimilar patches in tlie immediate neighbourhood were in a statė of 

 ulceration ; and otliers vvcre enlarged, or more than usually con- 

 spicuous, as they \vere situated favthei- from the seat of the uisease. 

 In the commfjncernent of tlie colon, the solitary glands presented 

 a State of enlargement and ulceration, and here and there an inor- 

 dinate vasciilarity ; but in the general track of the intestinal canal 

 traces of recent or active inflammation \vere very fe\v. The con- 

 dition of the mucous membrane of the intestines closely resembled 

 that vvliich is so generally observed in phthisicnl subjects; here, 

 hovvever, the strumous matter was not developed in the lungs, 

 but was confined to the mesenteric glands and spleen. AU the 

 mesenteric glands vvere more or less enlarged by a deposition of 

 caseous matter : two, vvhich are usually found adhering to the ter- 

 mination of the ileum, were even in a statė of suppuration and ul- 

 ceration, so that the parietės of the gut may have been attacked by 

 the ulcerative process on bolh side-, — fiom without by that com- 

 mencing in the mesenteric glands, — from \vithin by that of the g^a;i- 

 dulce aggregatce ; it vvas most probably, hovvever, progressive from 

 the latter point. 



" The spleen was greatly enlarged, measuring 5 inches long and 

 4 broad, vvith numerous small scattered tubercles, none exceeding 

 half an inch in diameter. Its substance was firm, butso disorganized 

 as to enable it to fulfil in a very slight degree the functions of a 

 reservoir of venous or portal blood. 



" The liver vvas enlarged about one third beyond its usual size, 

 and vvas of a pale colour ; but upon a olose inspection it presented no 

 other morbid appearance than a congested statė of the portal veins : 

 a condition frequently associated vvith strumous liscera, and which 

 vvas very vvell marked in this case, and perhaps dependent on the 

 diseased statė of the spleen. The gall-bladder contained thick 

 but healthy-coloured bile. 



" The stomach seemed free from disease; but had a large perfo- 

 ration, the margins of whch shovved that it had resulted from the 

 post-morlem action of the gastric secretion. 



"The pancreas vvas healthy. 



" In the chest there vvere no adhesions. The heart vvas healthy. 

 The lungs vvere somewhat firmer than usual, and the air-passages 

 contained an unusual ąuantity of fluid secretion, in some parts 

 stained vvith blood ; but none of the air-cells had been obliterated 

 by either inflammatory action or strumous deposition : there had 

 been recent subacute inflammation of the mucous lining of the 

 air-passages, but nothing more. 



" No Entozoa vvere met vvith in the dissection; although the ali- 

 mentary canal vvas carefully searched for them. 



" The brain and its membranes vvere healthy. 



" 'VV'ith respect to the organization of the Chimpanzee, so far as 

 the dissection vvas carried, the parts corresponded vvith the de- 

 scriptions given by Tyson in his ' Anatomy of a Pygmie' ; and by 

 Dr. Traill in the ' Wernerian Transactions,' vol. iii. 



" The tunka vaginalis tęstis, which communicates with the ab- 



