Abstract
On Jan. 3, 1896, Dr. B. F. Hall and the writer, assisted by Drs. W. K. Sloan and G. G. Craig, conducted a necropsy on the remains of O. N. R., an American, aged 43 yrs. 5 mos., which presented excellent specimens of the so-called cor bovinum and the horse-shoe kidney. The heart was found to weigh forty ounces and measured eight inches in length, five inches in breadth, four inches in thickness and fifteen inches in its greatest circumference. The hypertrophy was due mainly to an increase in the muscular tissue of the walls of the ventricles, and no indications of degeneration of this tissue could be found. The hypertrophy was so nearly uniform in the walls of the two ventricles as to preserve quite completely the symmetrical appearance of the organ. The right ventricular wall was half an inch in the greatest thickness; the left, one and one-fourth
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