Some Post-Mortem Surprises

mous liver weighing nearly no ounces in which apparently the whole of the normal tissue had been replaced by a primary carcinoma. A somewhat similar case was that of a woman, fifty-one years of age, who also dropped dead in the street; she had no medical history, and yet at the post-mortem examination we found an abdomen apparently solid with an ovarian carcinoma, in which the coils of both large and small gut were completely embedded and encased. (Figure i.) Most doctors are, of course, familiar with the man with " cor