liver or adrenals (kidneys involved in 48, spleen in 32, liver in 32, adrenals in 8, etc). During the same time there were in the hospital 78 cases diagnosed as renal tuberculosis, if the authorities be given the credit of making sucli a diagnosis in 48 cases where the kidneys were found to be involved in tuberculous lesions at autopsy. Of these 78 cases 13 (16%) had nephrcctomy performed, with one death occurring two months after the operation ; at the autopsy the other kidney was found to be

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... ar advanced in the disease-That gave a mortality rate of 7.6%. Of these 13 cases 6 fell into the speaker's hands ; he had no deaths. The vast majority of cases that come to autopsy which show tuberculous lesions in the kidney were of the disseminated general miliary type, and with such a class of cases, of course, the surgeons have nothing to do with. At the present time we are sure that there is no form of