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body which are so constant in appearance in both the acute and 

 chronic forms of the disease as the kidneys. The condition of 

 these organs, then, may be regarded as of the highest importance 

 in the making of postmortem diagnoses. 



When we remove the kidney from its fatty bed in the sublumbar 

 region we note, as a rule, that the entire organ is much larger than 



Fig. 49. — Hog-cholera kidney, showing hemorrhagic spotting. 

 Geo. R. White.) 



(Photo by Dr. 



normal. This is especially true in the cases of acute cholera. Very 

 often one kidney will be much more involved than the other and 

 much more enlarged. I have seen numerous cases in which one 

 kidney was nearly double the size of the opposite organ. In 

 addition to being larger in size, the outline of the kidney is swollen 

 and somewhat bulging in appearance. 



