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into a state of stupor; the pupils became large, and 

 reacted but slowly to the light ; the respiration became 

 sighing, intermittent, and stertorous, when she shortly 

 afterwards ceased to breathe. A poxt-rnort* /// exami- 

 nation, twenty-four hours after death, revealed consider- 

 able diminution in the normal condition of the liver, which 

 appeared flabby and shrivelled. The spleen was con- 

 siderably enlarged, and the heart Habhy and shrivelled. 

 The urine, a portion of which was obtained before 

 death, was of a dark colour, specific gravity ini'i), and 

 of an acid reaction; it yielded traces of albumen, but 

 no traces of bile, urea, or uric arid ; it was also 

 scanty in chlorides, sulphates, and earthy phospl. 

 but yielded bountifully of Imcine and tyn > 



!_'. NY.xt in I'lvOjUency OH :ity- 



two bfl referred to by Frerichs, one-half were 



attacked while pregnant ; and frm the third to the 

 sixth month is tin- iimst common period oi' j . 

 at which the disease shou 



3. : i'.n, including drunk' venereal 

 CCSSc .'utidiial syphilis, appears in some cases 

 to be a predisposing cause, particularly the latt< 

 mam - on syphilis have observed the 

 occurrence of jaundice about the comn.'n-'nn-nt of 

 what is known as the " secondary ^ : that disease, 

 and in some of these cases Ac 'l' n . v nt 

 Liver has been found to follow the 1 >ymp- 







4. Malaria. I'.iuU, Graves, an. 1 others have poii. 

 out that malarioi; poisonou- 



tions, are prolific sources from whence Acute Atrophy 

 of the Liver may spring, as instances are record 



