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the size of a pint measure, while the liver was utterly disintegrated.

In the abnormal physical existence of this woman medicine had rendered no assistance, but rather the reverse, and as years passed, disease grew greater. Before the fast, bilious discharges and weakened heart action were symptoms that never varied except to increase in intensity. The fast disclosed from its first day immense quantities of vile, black filth that had been stored within the body, with the result that, from its beginning until just before death, the case showed decided relief and lessened pain. There was, however, no decrease in the amount of waste revealed at each application of the enema, and finally nature indicated that organic trouble defying repair existed, and that death was inevitable.

At the time when typhoid symptoms appeared, all of the organs of the body of this patient had fully matured, but the treatment of the fever and inflammation with drugs, while feeding was in constant progress, led to the formation of the organic lesions described, to which is directly traceable the fatal issue of the case.