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straightened out or obliterated, either condition offering 

 a solution of what would otherwise have remained a 

 mystery. That the bend, flexion, or kink, has been a 

 permanent one, is judged from the fact that the ingesta 

 at the affected part is collected into a hard unyielding 

 mass, in some instances, in fact, maintaining an outline 

 actually elbow-shaped, just as would a plaster-cast of 

 the lumen of the bowel, thereby indicating plainly enough 

 the evil disposition affecting the bowel during life. 

 Similarly, when a normal flexure is found straightened 

 out, the packed ingesta at this point by its shape suffi- 

 ciently points out that the condition was in existence 

 prior to death. 



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