The common iliac veins, and the femoral, so far as traced, were
filled with firm coagula, almost entirely of a yellowish-white colour,
with some puriform fluid. Similar coagula, but accompanied by a
larger proportion of puriform fluid, filled the inferior cava to within
a short distance of that part where it receives the blood from the
liver. As it approached tliis part, the coagula became considerably
contracted; and above this part there was no coagulum.
The lumbar absorbent glands were somewhat enlarged, and of a
light-red colour.
In these two cases, we perceive a coincidence in the depressing
influence exerted on the circulating, and perhaps more particularly
the venous system, as shown by the condition of the extremities in
both ; but as both patients were in a very exhausted state, we are
not allowed to lay too much stress upon this fact, though I shall
presently have occasion to mention a third corresponding case.
Case \o.— Jaundice from, general enlargement of the liver. —.
Spleen greatly enlarged, and studded with small hard opaque bodies.
The glandular and ahsorlent system much diseased. — Joseph P —
was admitted into Gu/s Hospital, under my care, December aoth,
i8^?o. His chief complaint was, the enlargement of his abdomen,
which was very considerable. A hard tumour occupied all the
upper part of the abdomen ; and its edge might be traced distinctly



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