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more genial, it was chronic results which proved fatal. 

 These chronic affections may be familiarly understood 

 by the term consumption not that the subjects showed 

 the true lesions of phthisis, as it is medically called, 

 but certainly corresponding with the more extended 

 meaning of the word, as a "wasting away." Dense 

 deposits, called tubercles, were found ; abscesses in the 

 substance of the lungs, named " vomica" ; condensation, 

 producing a liver-like appearance, denominated " hepa- 

 tisation " ; many parasites of the order classed Hydatids ; 

 and the caseous degeneration of blood, constituting a 

 kind of embolism, were here located. An examination 

 of the digestive organs did not indicate structural de- 

 rangement, but while the rumen was filled with ingesta, 

 the second and third stomachs, together with the intes- 

 tines, were remarkably empty ; showing that the food 

 had collected in the first stomach, but that general 

 debility and interference with natural functions had 

 prevented its being carried further on for the purpose 

 of being properly digested and prepared for the assimi- 

 lation. In one case only did I find that the liver par- 

 ticipated ; in that one, however, tubercles existed, which 

 would be the result of disordered circulation. 



' The deductions to be drawn from the foregoing are 

 that the want of nutrition produced debility, and such 

 deterioration of blood as to prevent the lungs which, it 

 has been explained, are so intimately associated with 

 the circulation performing their office properly, the 

 result ultimately being absolute disorganisation of 

 those organs themselves. In addition to this the 

 paralysed condition of the digestive organs had been 

 sympathised with by the respiratory, as we have seen 



