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vulva a few days before death. The like was also found in 
the other parts of this viscera. By the microscope it was 
seen to be composed of globules of blood, small particles 
of fat, and nucleated cells, resembling* a mixture of pus and 
mucus, and depending, no doubt, on the secretion of these 
two substances. On the internal surface of the uterus, near 
its neck, were observed a great number of vesicles, trans¬ 
parent, and of various sizes. These contained a serous 
liquid, which held in suspension fat and globules of pus or 
mucus. They were the follicles of Naboth, more or less de¬ 
generated. The lungs were congested and somewhat oede- 
matous. One of the kidneys, part of the spleen, some blood 
from the heart and the jugular vein, the bladder, which 
contained very little urine, and the liver, were all analysed by 
M. Dewilde, who found the latter organ only to contain 
traces of saccharine matter. 
After having ascertained these facts, the author deemed it 
important to examine the cerebro-rachidian apparatus; phy¬ 
siologists and medical practitioners having stated that a 
sort of correlation obtains between alterations of the different 
parts of the nervous system, especially the medulla oblongata, 
and glucosuria. The cranium and the whole extent of the 
spinal canal were laid open with great care, without the least 
derangement of the dura mater taking place, and the w r hole 
of the nervous cord was carefully dissected in the presence of 
MM. Dewilde and Derache, who acknowledged with the 
author that the whole of it was normal, both in consistence 
and colour. The only thing visible was a slight injection of 
the pia mater, the result of the sanguineous stagnation in the 
veins at the moment of death. One organ only had undergone 
some alteration, namely, the pituitary gland, fatty matter 
being found in its tissue, which was also softened. This cere¬ 
bral alteration induced the author to examine other vascular 
glands, which he w T ould otherwise have forgotten, when he 
found that the thyroid glands presented some yellow spots 
on their surface, w 7 hich were entirely formed by fatty matter; 
and the lymphatic glands of the mesentery w 7 ere also hyper¬ 
trophied and somewhat fatty. 
These necroscopic details resolve themselves into tw r o 
important facts, viz., the complete stearosis of the liver and 
the kidneys, the incomplete or partial stearosis of several 
other organs, and the absenceof lesions in the cephalo-rachidian 
apparatus in this diabetic patient. This last fact (the in¬ 
tegrity of the cerebro-spinal axis) seems so much more 
worthy of notice inasmuch as medical men are disposed to 
attribute glucosuria to lesions either of the medulla oblongata 
