606 TRANSLATIONS FROM CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
Nothing remarkable was perceived to exist on the exterior of 
the body except atrophy of the mammary glands, which, 
on closer examination, were found to contain pus of a 
bloody character; the gastro-intestinal tube presented no 
lesions of any imporance, only there were a few ecchy- 
mosic spots on the small intestines, and some erosions on the 
glands of Peyer. There was considerable hypertrophy 
of the liver, and it was also of a yellow colour, owing 
to the great quantity of fat which pervaded it, and which 
occupied the whole interstitial tissue, distending it, and 
thus rendering it easy to circumscribe the hepatic 
lobules, which can hardly be distinguished in their normal 
state, from their being then so closely pressed together. The 
microscopic examination enabled the author to verify that such 
was the seat of the fatty deposit. There were, however, cells 
of the glandular tissue which were also filled with it, so as 
not to be able to perceive the nucleus, but the majority of 
them contained only a small proportion, in the form of minute 
drops, which occupied the place of the amyloid granules, 
amongst which the nuclei could be clearly distinguished. 
On the surface of the liver were small tumours; in some 
places they were of the size of a large hazel-nut; their rough 
surface gave them the appearance of being cancerous, but the 
microscopic examination showed that they were composed of 
fatty matter. The spleen was perfectly healthy, and nothing 
abnormal was perceived to exist in the pancreas or the 
salivary glands. The bladder was very much contracted and 
almost empty, the kidneys were hypertrophied and of a 
yellow colour, and, like the liver, they were affected with 
stearosis. On dividing them into halves they presented the 
same colour, and one could clearly distinguish the pyramids 
of Ferrin, or the facets of the pyramids of Malpighi, and 
also the fasciculi of the uriniferi of which these are composed. 
The tissue which unites them was filled with stearine, which 
was easily verified by the microscope. The uriniferous tubes 
were atrophied, but the epithelial cells contained no fatty 
matter. The ovaries were considerably atrophied, their 
surface was granulated and yellowish: the follicles of Graaf 
had disappeared, and they contained a quantity of fatty 
matter. In one horn of the uterus, about its middle, was a 
soft, non-pedunculated tumour, about the size of an egg. This 
was mistaken for a cyst, but on opening it it was found to 
communicate with the uterus, and to be only an accidental 
dilatation of the part. The mucous membrane lining it was 
red, granular, and covered with bloody mucus of the same 
nature as that which was discharged from the mouth and 
