260 
Dr. Davy on 
slight fever and a feeble pulse, varying in frequency between 
90 and 120. This unfavourable change was attended with 
the emission of a large quantity of air from the pleura, and 
with an alteration in the character of the fluid discharged, 
which had become more purulent, of a greenish hue, and of 
an offensive odour. The patient expired suddenly on the 
29th July. 
The body was examined twelve hours after death, when 
the following were the most important morbid appearances 
that were discovered. 
The cavity of the abdomen having been laid open, the 
diaphragm was found slightly protruding into the left hypo- 
chondriac region, without displacement of any of the abdo- 
minal viscera. 
The body having been immersed in a bath, on opening 
into the left pleura between the first and second ribs, air, to 
the amount of 1 70 cubic inches issued out and was collected ; 
it consisted of 1# (j carbonic acid gas, 
1 .5 oxygene, 
82.5 azote. 
The left pleura contained besides, about six ounces of pus, 
so much having subsided from the water that entered the 
chest to supply the place of the air. 
The right pleura was quite free from disease. The right 
lung appeared to be healthy, but on minute examination, 
numerous granular translucent tubercles were detected dis- 
seminated through its substance, and two small vomicae were 
found in the upper part of its superior lobe. The heart was 
displaced ; it was situated on the spine, inclining a little to 
the right side, and the position of the greater part of the 
