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 disintegration, but the other organs, and the intestines throughout, with the exception of the portion named, were normal in size and position. Until a year or more preceding death there may have been a small passage through the growth described, but this had finally closed, and the woman had lived only by the absorption of such liquid food as she could ingest and retain. The condition of the major portion of the intestines as to size and position is affirmative proof that the patient had never been subjected to drug dosage in the developing period of life. In this respect this case cannot parallel the one first cited, for in it drugs had played a disastrous part, and were the direct cause of the deformation of the digestive tract. Here the defect was occasioned by natural processes operating for local repair.

CASE 3. A young married woman of 24s had been since maturity a sufferer from severe intestinal troubles, and from acute bilious symptoms. She had been medically treated for so-called appendicitis four years before her death, and an operation had been advised, but to this she refused to submit. In this connection it is interesting to note