DISEASES OF THE BLOOD VESSELS 
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Fatty deposits in the aortic intima are by no means 
uncommon in the human subject and are encountered at 
all ages, even in youth at a time when progressive 
arteriosclerosis does not accompany them. There is a 
belief in many quarters that this fat may be laid down 
Table 5. 
Table Showing the Incidence of Degenerative Arterial Disease, the Percentage in 
Animals Subjected to Autopsy and the Principal Associated Pathology. 
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3 
16 
13 
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3.3 
3.5 
5 
7 
3 
1 
1 
1 
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1 
3 
1 
Carnivora 
5 
Ungulata 
2 
Marsupialia 
3 
1.8 
Total 
35 
3 
2 
13 
3 
1.8 
.22 
2.2 
1.8 
2.2 
7 
7 
2 
1 
5 
1 
1 
2 
6 
4 
3 
8 
Passeres 
Picariae 
Psittaci 
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Striges 
Accipitres 
13 
6.6 
1 
4 
? 
5 
? 
4 
Galli* 
5 
5 
1.6 
25. 
1 
4 
1 
2 
3 
1 
2 
Steganopodes* 
Herodiones 
1 
1. 
Palamedes 
1 
20. 
1 
1 
Anseres 
11 
3.4 
2 
4 
1 
4 
1 
Struthiones 
7 
22. 
1 
2 
3 
Alectorides 
2 
54 
1 
1 
Total 
66 
1.8 
1 
6 
15 
4 
25 
9 
11 
Grand Total 
101 
1.8 
8 
13 
20 
5 
27 
13 
19 
*1 with Coronary 8clero3ia only. 
**2 with Coronary sclerosis only. 
For meaning of italics see foot note Table 1. 
and then removed. Such deposits are exceedingly rare 
in wild animals ; when they occur it is in small indefinite 
patches and not the bands or rows as found in man. 
Degenerative Aeteritis or Arteriosclerosis. 
Whether or not it be exact to speak of the more pro- 
tracted forms of vascular disease usually called arterio- 
sclerosis or atheroma as degenerative, such changes 
fonn the most pronounced features of the lesions, and 
