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up. From this time she steadily grew worse, and died 
on the 26th. 
Dr Ruttan, Professor of Chemistry, M‘Gill Univer- 
sity, made elaborate analyses of urine sent to Montreal 
from time to time, and without offering any detailed 
statement here, I may say that the general conclu- 
sions arrived at were as follows: The whole of the 
urine passed in six days was sent, and he says the total 
amount, if representing six days’ urine, is about one- 
seventh the normal. This contains all constituents 
in about normal quantities in relation to the volume 
of the urine, except the phosphoric acid, which is about 
one-third what it should be. 
I.— AUTOPSY. 
Inspectio Cadavert. 
Nutrition poor; body much emaciated ; apparent age 
65 to 70; weight about 50; rigor mortis complete. 
A. M. staining on hands and feet; P. M. staining on 
back of trunk; bedsores on sacrum, tip and ball of 
great toe; feet and ankles cedematous; legs flexed on 
thighs by contracted tendons; no teeth, and sockets 
much absorbed. 
Sectio Cadaveri. 
HEAD.—Scalp thin and easily dissected; calvarium 
of average thickness ; tables thin, however, diploe being 
in excess; dura mater not adherent to the skull, 
slightly opaque at vertex ; one slight adhesion to brain 
at margin of longitudinal fissure; ante-mortem clots in 
longitudinal and lateral sinuses, the clots in the lateral 
sinuses being particularly well organised. 
Bratn.—The brain weighed about 35 oz.; micro- 
scopically, it was healthy in appearance—in fact, in 
