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The Philippine Journal of Science 



1917 



Surplus tissues after step 3 are placed in 80 per cent alcohol 

 for future staining if necessary. 



A record of the gross conditions of all the organs, tissues, and 

 serous surfaces examined was tabulated with the autopsy num- 

 ber, age, number of hours after death the autopsy was per- 

 formed, nutrition, clinical diagnosis, ' cause of death, and the 

 findings in the peripheral nerves. This tabulation simplified 

 computation and classification and made apparent the coincidence 

 of degeneration in certain organic -lesions. Table V, giving the 

 causes of death, shows the occurrence pi degeneration in all the 

 cases studied. 



An arbitrary designation of the extent of degeneration was 

 used in the tables, for instance, -| — | — |- for marked degenera- 

 tion, -\ — j- for moderate, + for slight, and — for the absence. 

 The accompanying illustrations at the end of this article show 

 these designations clearly. The type and degree of" degeneration 

 in the vagus are identical with those of the posterior tibial. 



Table V. — Incidence and degree of degeneration in all the cases studied. 



Cases. 



25 

 14 

 10 

 6 

 4 

 3 

 2 

 3 

 2 

 2 

 2 

 10 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 2 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 2 



Cause of death. 



Enteritis (cholera) 



Pulmonary tuberculosis 



Accident (violence) --- 



Cardiac dilatation (beriberi) 



Bronchopneumonia _ _ 



Lobar pneumonia _ 



Ulcerative colitis (amoebic) 



Acute suppurative peritonitis 



Acute malarial infection _ 



Acute suppurative endometritis 



Carcinomatosis 



Cardiac dilatation (acute) 



Generalized tuberculosis 



Sarcoma of right kidney - 



Enteritis (typhoid) 



Pyonephrosis _ 



Cirrhosis of the liver - 



Lymphosarcoma of stomach 



Intestinal obstruction 



Tuberculous peritonitis -. — 



Marasmus (atrophy) __- 



Multiple chloroma 



Membranous colitis .-_ - 



Acute vegetative endocarditis -- 



Chronic, interstitial and parenchymatous nephritis - 



Hemorrhage from gastric ulcer.-- --- 



Suppurative cholecystitis - 



Gangrenous stomatitis 



Tuberculous meningitis 



Submersion 



+++ 



+ + 



16 

 7 

 4 

 3 

 1 

 2 

 2 

 2 



ll- 



Total . 



1 :. 



1 



1 



29 



55 



16 



