. Post-mortem pathology; a manual of post-mortem examinations and the interpretations to be drawn therefrom; a practical treatise for students and practitioners. hemorrhage (Rokitansky). The Ureters and Bladder.—The ureters may be distended withurine, as from an impacted stone, from cancer of the uterus, or fromoverfilling of the bladder. They are often double, most frequentlyuniting in their middle third, more rarely in the structure of the blad-der, but may enter this viscus by separate papillae. The ureters beingslit open throughout their entire extent, the appearance of the mucosais descri


. Post-mortem pathology; a manual of post-mortem examinations and the interpretations to be drawn therefrom; a practical treatise for students and practitioners. hemorrhage (Rokitansky). The Ureters and Bladder.—The ureters may be distended withurine, as from an impacted stone, from cancer of the uterus, or fromoverfilling of the bladder. They are often double, most frequentlyuniting in their middle third, more rarely in the structure of the blad-der, but may enter this viscus by separate papillae. The ureters beingslit open throughout their entire extent, the appearance of the mucosais described, taking into account the color and character of anycatarrhal exudate, should it be present. Many microscopists teachmethods of diagnosing the situation of a lesion in the urinary tract [82 POST-MORTEM EXAMINATIONS from the shape of the epithelial cells. A most interesting experimentis to take at a postmortem scrapings from the pelvis of the kidney,the ureter, bladder, and urethra, examine them under the microscope,and determine whether or not such a diagnosis is possible. Hemor-rhages, abscesses, papillary fibromata, the Distoma hcEmatobium, calci-. Fig. ioo.—The relations of the pancreas, kidney, ureter, adrenal, and solar plexus are shown, the liverhaving been turned upward and the intestines shoved over to the right. fied bodies, etc., are found in the ureter. Miliary tubercles of themucous membrane are seen, often of typical shape and large size. In some three hundred consecutive autopsies performed in one year,I met with three cases in which the ureter had been tied during abdom-inal operations on the uterus and its adnexa. The right ureter seemsto be ligatured oftener than the left. In pregnancy there may be con-siderable pressure hydronephrosis. If it be desired to collect the urine for microscopic, chemic, ormedicolegal examination, it should be drawn off into a sterilized vessel EXAMINATION OF THE ABDOMINAL ORGANS I83 with a new catheter. Should strychnine pois


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