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StoMAcH.—Large ; about 2 inches from pyloric orifice 
was a constricted portion. 
This condition was undoubtedly not the result of 
any inflammatory action, but the natural shape of the 
stomach, giving rise to an appearance suggestive of a 
rudimentary second stomach. 
INTESTINES.—Small ; evidences of an old peritonitis ; 
adhesions everywhere; there were several constricted 
portions from 3 to 6 inches long; in no place was 
there complete stricture, and no scars were present; 
above the constricted portions of the intestine was 
much distended. 
CacumM.—Walls much thickened and much venous 
congestion; inner surface dark red and roughened ; 
had appearance of numerous varicose veins in wall. 
ASCENDING CoLon.— One portion constricted, and 
part preceding dilated; transverse colon, normal; 
descending, slightly dilated. 
Kipneys.—Right: very small, about 2} inches long ; 
apparently normal. Left: about 1 inch longer than 
right; apparently normal; capsules non-adherent. 
We may sum up the case by saying that, in the 
subject under consideration, we have a woman inherit- 
ing from parents an intensely neurotic organisation, in 
consequence of which she showed many indications of 
an ill-balanced and unstable nature, culminating in 
various vital crises, including periods of stupor. In 
fact, this woman seems to have spent nearly one-third 
of her whole existence in an unconscious condition, 
being then a purely vegetative organism. 
At one period of her life she was a veritable Rip 
Van Winkle, finally sinking into a long lethargy from 
which there was only a brief consciousness prior to the 
final stoppage of the vital mechanism. But it is to be 
noted that this curious condition was not the result of 
any gross lesion of the brain, but of hidden molecular 
