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Stomachs. — Contain six pounds of soft, slightly moist greenish material 

 in various stages of digestion. This material consists of small twigs and 

 needles of evergreens. The exact character of the evergreen cannot be 

 determined. 



Examination of Urine from Bladder. — Reddish brown in color, smoky, 

 with slight flocculent suspension, and heavy white crystalline deposit; 

 faintlv alkaline in reaction; odor " piney," like hemlock; specific gravity, 

 1,004; presence of albumen demonstrated by heat and acetic acid, and also 

 by nitric acid test. (This albumen apparently due to the presence of 

 haemaglobin derivatives set free by freezing). No sugar; no bile. Sediment; 

 abundant calcium oxalate and triple phosphate crystals ; few epithelial and 

 red blood cells, and bacteria. 



In the contents of intestines were found fluke eggs and eggs resembling 

 those of strongyhis family. No adult worms were found. 

 Bacteriological Examination. — 



Cultures from heart's blood, vena cava, and spleen, sterile. 



Cultures from kidney, lung, and liver contain a bacillus of the colon 

 group. In the kidney a few colonies of the streptococcus were found. 

 Histological Examination. — 



Kidney and muscles of trunk and limbs normal. Spleen and lymph 

 nodes contain much old blood pigment; liver, fibrous thickening with 

 pigmentation of tissue about fluke cavities. 

 PatJiologic Diagnosis. — 



Extreme emaciation. 



Fluke disease of liver. 



Localized chronic hepatitis. 



Pigmentation of spleen and lymph nodes. 



Examination of Deer No. 3. 



Received at Bender Laboratory in frozen condition on March 4th; 

 autopsy March 6th. 



Body that of a medium-sized male deer. Legs flexed upon body and 

 also at the knees and elbows. On right side of head half an inch above' 

 alveolar process of jaw and one and one-half inches in front of orbit is a 

 round hole in the skin. This hole communicates with an old healed sinus, 

 running through the hard palate from the right to the left side, communi- 

 cating with cavity of mouth. The first two teeth on the right side and the 

 third and fourth teeth on the left side have been knocked out. This hole is 

 probablv the track of a bullet. The wound cavity in the hard palate is 

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