28 THOMPSON YATES AND JOHNSTON LABORATORIES REPORT 
peritoneal fluid. The unwounded intestines were thrown free of the body, and among their free coils, 
as well as in the peritoneal cavity, several free adult male and female filariae were found. (These were 
preserved for examination). 
Thorax. — There was no pleurisy nor increase in pleural fluid. About two hundred c.c. of clear amber- 
coloured, quickly coagulating fluid was found in the pericardium. There were no signs of pericarditis. 
Heart. — Weight, 1,360 gm. The connective tissue round the great vessels at the base of the heart 
was much infiltrated with a yellowish, quickly coagulating fluid, similar to that seen in the subcutaneous 
tissues : right side collapsed ; left, full of blood. Valves, normal. Muscle, firm and rather dark ; no 
ante-mortem clots. The organ contained no filariae. 
The aorta was normal and contained no filariae. 
An aneurism about the size of a walnut was situated on the superior mesenteric artery, 3"J5 cm. 
from its origin. On being opened it was found to contain numerous sclerostomata. The walls of the 
aneurism were in many places partially broken down. Their thickness was about ro. cm. 
Right Lung. — Weight, 810 gm., was dark throughout and contained many small pneumonic areas ; 
it was everywhere congested. There was slight bronchitis. Vessels contained no clots. 
Left Lung. — Weight, 1,113 g m - The colour of the lung was almost a canary yellow. It had not 
the appearance of acute degeneration. There was no pneumonia. 
Abdomen. — There were no signs of peritonitis, neither were there petechiae, subperitoneal or 
mucosal. 
Intestines. — The contents of the upper three-fourths of the canal were much bile stained. The 
large gut was filled with hard faeces. No intestinal parasites were seen. 
Right Kidney. — Weight, 607 gm. Its colour was dark, but there were no haemorrhages. It was 
firm in consistency, and the capsule peeled with ease. Section shewed nothing abnormal. 
Left Kidney. — Weight, 405 gm. Same appearance as right. 
Subrarenals. — Seemed to be normal ; there were no haemorrhages. 
Spleen. — Weight, 810 gm. The substance was very dark and rather diffluent. The capsule slightly 
thickened, and the trabeculae well marked. They were particularly well seen after washing away the semi- 
fluid pulp. No infarcts. 
Liver. — Weight, 3,645 gm. Everywhere over the capsule small, hard, yellowish nodules of about 
the size of a millet seed were seen. These were seen also throughout the substance of the liver ; they 
seemed not to be calcareous, yet were too firm to be crushed between the thumb nails. The vessels were 
normal. 
Pancreas. — Weight, 4.05 gm. ; normal. 
Lymphatic system. — Manv of the mesenteric glands were enlarged to the size ot a large walnut or 
pigeon's egg. These were seen on section to be soft, almost fluid in places, and yellow. They exuded 
a w atery liquid strongly resembling the yellow fluid which has been described as infiltrating the connective 
tissues round the great vessels at the heart's base and the abdominal subcutaneous tissues. Other mes- 
enteric glands were only slightly enlarged, many of them contained small haemorrhagic areas, principally 
111 the cortex. Some of the pelvic glands were very dark in colour and uniformally haemorrhagic. Many 
small, markedly haemorrhagic glands were seen in the mesenterv. On the left side, beneath the parietal 
peritoneum, was a large, dilated, turgid, lymphatic vessel, about 63 mm. in diameter. It was filled 
with pale vellow, easily coagulable fluid. It contained no adult filariae. 
Brain and its membranes, particularly the pia mater, were congested. 
Bone Martoze. — The marrow of the long bones was yellow in colour and apparently normal. 
Coverslip preparations were made and examined from all the organs and 
from hlood taken from different parts ot the body. They were also made from the 
oedema fluid taken from the connective tissues, from the pericardial fluid, and from the 
