HEPWORTH, ON THE MICROSCOPE. '^ 



all its consequences, eflFiision of serum, patches of lymph, &c. 

 The peritoneum at the contracted part was very much 

 thickened, brown, and scirrhous ; the inner and outer fibrous 

 aponeuroses of the muscular coat were also very thick, white, 

 and dense, with transverse strise (fig. 5), and appeared to 

 have been pushed inwards considerably beyond the level of 

 the mucous coat, which had been reflected on each side of 

 the protruding mass. The accompanying sketch gives a 

 general outline of a longitudinal section of the contracted 

 part. The cellular tissue, which was left in place of the 

 muscular coat, appeared to pass through the inner aponeurosis 

 at intervals, probably opposite the valvulse conniventes. 



The following is a note of the case above mentioned : 

 J. S — , about 26 years of age, had difficidt micturi- 

 tion, Avith anasarca of the extremities. The symptoms led 

 me to examine the urine from time to time, in which I found 

 what I called, it appears, at the time, Sarcina vesica. The 

 urine did not coagulate on the addition of nitric acid. He 

 gradually recovered as the general tone of the system im- 

 proved. If this be the same vegetation as the other, it must 

 be in a state of germination ; it was about the same colour as 

 the one sent. I took no measurement of it, therefore cannot 

 say what size it is. You can make what use of it you please ; 

 perhaps a memorandum of it in a woodcut may cause others 

 to be on the look out for similar specimens. 



