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 and pus-laden. The left hemisphere was structurally normal. The right jugular vein was filled with a whitish hardened mineral deposit, but the heart was in normal condition. The right lung had atrophied and was. in a state of embolism; it was virtually a solid mass of blood clots and was useless as an organ. The left lung was normal. The liver was partially disintegrated. In this case no abnormality existed in the entire length of the alimentary canal, and the kidneys, the pancreas, and the spleen were in functioning condition.

CASE 6, that of a man 46 years of age, presents a physical history of intermittent suff ering. As the result of an accident in childhood, in which the patient was internally injured, both youth and early manhood were filled with a succession of acute illnesses, which were treated in orthodox manner without permanent alleviation. About fifteen years before death, the patient abandoned medicine and turned to the natural or drugless method of cure, with the outcome that the first physical relief of permanence was obtained. Three years before his last illness acute disease again appeared, and, because