104 ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE 



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. 



CAECUM. 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. 



KIDNEYS. Right : very small, about 2 J 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 Eip 

 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 



