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vessels. Its arteries and veins are numerous ; in their mode 

 of distribution they present no peculiarities worthy 

 of note. The lymphatics are few in number, and 

 seem to belong to the cortical substance alone. The 

 development of the supra-renal capsule takes place at 

 the same time with that of the kidney, but entirely 

 independently of that organ. Of the histological 

 transformations which it undergoes during foetal life 

 little is known. 



the transverse colon, and another in the root of the right lung. This 

 latter, by its pressure upon the pulmonary veins, the interior of which it 

 had also invaded, gave rise first to haemoptysis, and afterwards to exten- 

 sive pleuritic effusion from the immediate effects of which death took 

 place. The most prominent abnormal nervous phenomenon manifested 

 by this patient, which continued during her whole life, and included most 

 of her multifarious ailments, was excessive general hyper-sesthesia with 

 great mobility of the nervous system. (Ed.) 



