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leaflets. The ventricles and auricles show no appreciable change 

 from normal. The muscle is brown, and its cut surface is 

 smooth, dull, and moist. The blood is coagulated, forming a 

 coagulum of chicken-fat consistence. 



The spleen weighs 37 grams. It is about normal in shape and 

 somewhat soft in consistence. The capsule is blue. The spleen 

 cuts easily, showing a smooth, moist, compact reddish surface. 



The adrenals weigh 9 grams. They are rather firm in consis- 

 tence, dark brown in color, and show no appreciable change. 



The kidneys weigh 217 grams. The left kidney measures 12.5 

 centimeters in length by 6 centimeters in width and 3 centimeters 

 in thickness. The right kidney measures 9 centimeters in length, 

 5 centimeters in width, and 3 centimeters in thickness. Both 

 kidneys are somewhat firm in consistence and about normal in 

 shape. They cut readily, showing a smooth, moist surface, from 

 which a small amount of blood exudes. Upon the surface the 

 pyramids are very large, compact, glistening, and reddish, while 

 the cortex is mottled and light brown and red, although in places 

 the columns of Bertini are pale and bulging. The capsule strips 

 readily, showing a surface which is slightly roughened by depres- 

 sions of 0.5 centimeter in diameter, and it has numerous stellate 

 injections upon a light brownish background. In places it is 

 firmly adherent to the kidney substance. 



The intestines. The serosa has been described. The contents 

 of the small intestine are a thin, mucoid yellowish and brown ma- 

 terial, while in the colon the contents vary from a thick, semi- 

 fluid brownish material in the ascending and transverse colon to 

 a thick, mucoid grayish material in the descending colon. The 

 mucosa throughout is thickened, swollen, soft, and velvety, and it 

 has a dark grayish color with a reddish tinge in places, although 

 in the descending colon the mucosa is mottled with what appear 

 to be superficial ulcers. These areas measure about 3 or 4 mil- 

 fluid brownish material in the ascending and transverse colon to 

 a thick, mucoid grayish material in the descending colon. The 

 base appears to be located in the mucosa. The mucosa of the 

 small intestine is pale grayish, smooth, and moist and is appar- 

 ently normal. 



The stomach contains some thick mucoid material. The mu- 

 cosa is grayish and smooth. 



The pancreas is firm in consistence, but normal in size and 

 shape and shows no appreciable change. 



The mesentery appears normal. 



The liver weighs 956 grams. It is reddish brown and is about 

 normal in shape and consistence. The capsule is mottled in 



