Zoological Society. 88S^ 



In the commencement of the colon, the solitary glands presented 

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

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

 traces of recent or active inflammation were very few. The con- 

 dition of the mucous membrane of the intestines closely resembled 

 that which is so generally observed in phthisical subjects; here, 

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

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

 mesenteric glands were more or less enlarged by a deposition of 

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

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

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

 the ulcerative process on both sides, — from without by that com- 

 mencing in the mesenteric glands, — from within by that of the g/a/i- 

 dulce aggregatce : it was most probably, however, progressive from 

 the latter point. 



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

 4 broad, with numerous small scattered tubercles, none exceeding 

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

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

 reservoir of venous or portal blood. 



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

 and was of a pale colour ; but upon a close inspection it presented no 

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

 a condition frequently associated with strumous viscera, and which 

 was very well marked in this case, and perhaps dependent on the 

 diseased state 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 showed that it had resulted from the 

 post-mortem action of the gastric secretion. 



"The pancreas was healthy. 



" In the chest there were no adhesions. The heart was healthy. 

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

 contained an unusual quantity of fluid secretion, in some parts 

 stained with 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 were met with in the dissection ; although the ali- 

 mentary canal was carefully searched for them. 



" The brain and its membranes were healthy. 



" With respect to the organization of the Chimpanzee, so far as 

 the dissection was carried, the parts corresponded with the de- 

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

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



" The tunica vaginalis testis, which communicates with the ab- 

 domen in the Siviia Sattjrus, was here a completely closed or shut 

 sac, as in the human subject." 



