or THE HUMAN BODY AND INTEENAL OEGANS. 
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therefore appeared advisable to introduce in the margin their weights in various states ; 
also the weights of the heart and liver, which were subject to great variations. The 
“ Thymus gland,” an organ which disappears with infancy, was so large in the foetus in 
fourteen cases, that it appeared to have formed a fatal impediment to respiration. The 
abdominal organs were generally heavier in the male than in the female ; the spleen in 
both was subject to considerable variations in size, and the mean weight of the left 
kidney was generally found greater than that of the right. 
Table No. II . — Assigned causes of death. 
Diseases of the digestive organs, principally peritonitis, enteritis, and dysentery, were 
found in 18 males and 41 females, and most frequently in females from 30 years of age 
and upwards. In 1 male and 2 females there was disease of the kidneys; diseases of 
the respiratory organs in 147, one-half of the males, and in 98 females; 44 were cases 
of pulmonary consumption in males and 37 in females; 91 were cases of pneumonia in 
males and 55 in females. Of diseases of the vascular system, 11 occurred in males and 
17 in females ; 5 were cases of pericarditis, 4 in males ; 13 of dropsy, 8 in females ; and 
11 of cachexy, of which 7 were females. Diseases of the nervous system were found in 
109 males and 66 females; viz. cerebral apoplexy in 9 males and 8 females; meningitis 
in 22 males and 11 females ; disease of brain in 55 males and 36 females ; myehtis in 
23 males and 11 females; so that 37 per cent, of males and 28‘3 per cent, of females 
had organic disease of the cerebral organs. In Table I. the proportion is only 12-3 per 
cent, in the males and 17-6 per cent, in the females. There were 3 deaths from lumbar 
abscess, 1 from cancer, 1 from erysipelas, 4 from fever, and 3 were inquest cases. 
Besults. 
The average height of the adult male varied from 67'8 to 65 inches, of the female 
from 63-2 to 61'6 inches; while the mean weight of the former varied from 112T2 to 
91-5 lbs., and of the latter from 95 ’2 to 76*9, showing a preponderance in the insane 
male of 6 lbs., and in the insane female of 8 lbs., as compared with the sane adults dying 
at the same period of life. 
The average weight of the right cerebral hemisphere varied in the males from 20’ 89 
oz. to 18-97 oz., and in the females from 19-21 oz. to 17-20 oz. ; the left varied in the 
males from 21-05 oz. to 18-62 oz., and from 19-51 oz. to 17-39 oz. in the females. It is 
a singular fact, confirmed by the examination of nearly 200 cases at St. Marylebone, in 
which the hemispheres were weighed separately, that almost invariably the weight 
of the left exceeded that of the right by at least the eighth of an ounce. In the Med. 
Chir. Trans, vol. xxxix., several cases of inequalities of the cerebral hemispheres which 
came under my notice are given. The average weight of the cerebellum varied in the 
males from 5-42 oz. to 5-06 oz., and from 5 to 4-74 oz. in the females ; that of the pons 
Varolii and medulla in the males from 1-15 oz. to 1-02 oz., and from 1-05 to -95 oz. 
