the ball. On an examination of the organs of the chest evidences of severe bronchitis were found on both sides, with broncho-pneumonia of the lower portions of the right lung, and, though to a much less extent, of the left. The lungs contained no abscesses and the heart no clots. The liver was enlarged and fatty, but free from abscesses; nor were any found in any other organ except the left kidney, which contained, near its surface, a small abscess about one third of an inch in diameter. In

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... ewing the history of the case in connection with the autopsy, it is quite evident that the different suppurating surfaces, and especially the fractured spongy tissue of the vertebra?, furnish a sufficient explanation of the septic condition which existed.