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 inches in diameter, a structural change which suggests the thought that nature had attempted to remedy in this portion of the alimentary canal the deficiency in size and function existing in the stomach. It is said that cirrhosis of the stomach is a very rare symptom in disease, but in this case and in the one that follows, this organic change was present in forms that could scarcely have been more perfect examples of their kind. Below the dilated section of the intestines the bowels, including the colon, were apparently normal. The gall bladder was quite small, while the kidneys, the pancreas, and the spleen all exhibited incipient hardening of tissue.

CASE 11, an unmarried woman of 38, had never passed a year during infancy and girlhood free from acute illness, and had been a sufferer for all of later life from nervous exhaustion that at frequent intervals took the form of morbid craving for food, which had been greatly increased when her medical adviser, about five years before death, prescribed its satisfaction by ordering her sustenance every two hours, with a meal the last thing at night. Excruciating pain