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Date:: 1888

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25a from before backwards ; this explains the ease with which it could be felt with the hand and pressed backwards. Its mobilit}^ was increased by extreme looseness of its connec- tions and peritoneal investment; the condition of the vessels was similar, except that the transition to them was more direct and shorter. The left kidney occupied its normal position (?). It was packed away much deeper at the side and behind the verte- bral column, and projected downwards as far as the fibro- cartilage between the third and fourth lumbar vertebrje, thus lying not much higher than the right which seemed to be displaced more markedly forwards than downwards. The right kidney weighed 80 grammes, the left 150, the right was o4 centimetres shorter than the left. The shape of the right was slightly altered, its upper end was pressed against the liver, and actually flattened by contact with it; besides this it showed an anterior convexity and a posterior concavity, corresponding to its position on an oblique plane, double-inclined and convex anteriorly. The left kidney showed marked increase of its tubular substance. The right supra-renal body was found in its normal position. (5) Bouhle moveahle Kidney (Williara Eoberts, 1852) (86). In a phthisical, very thin woman, both kidneys were very plainly felt through the abdominal walls, the right much lower than the left. At the autopsy the right kidney was found lying loose one and a half inches below the liver, and attached only by its vessels and ureter ; it was entirely destitute of fat. The left kidney had a normal position, but lay an inch lower (than usual). The artery and vein of the right kidney were half an inch longer than those of the left. (6) Moveable Kidney on the rigid side ; scldrrJms of the itterus ; hydronephrosis (Braun, 1853). In a woman, fifty years of age, suffering from cancer of