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peritoneum covering the termination of the Ileum. Tubercular deposit was likewise found in one of the supra-renal capsules. Vide Pls. VI. VII.
The development of tubercles on various parts, as well as in one of the supra-renal capsules, sufficiently attests the strumous character of the patient’s disease; and it is difficult to divest oneself of the notion that the disease in the supra-renal capsule had some share in producing the peculiar symptoms which immediately preceded the fatal result, whatever importance may be attached to the state of the kidneys and cerebral complication. At all events, the discoloration of the skin indicated before death the existence of capsular disease; and it is worthy of remark, that in this instance the deposition of pigment-cells was not limited to the integument, but was found scattered in small masses over the omentum, the mesentery, and the cellular tissue on the interior of the abdominal parietes.