Abstract
To the Editor: —In Bellevue Hospital the diagnosis of status lymphaticus by simple inspection of the body is frequently made, both in the wards and in the necropsy room— in the latter place without the clinical history and before proceeding with the systematic examination of the viscera. In the male, the configuration of the body in status lymphaticus is of the female type—the face is beardless or nearly so, and the axillary and other hairs are scanty, the skin is smooth and of an unusually delicate texture, the pubic hairs are sharply defined in a transverse direction, the waist is slender and sloping, and the thighs are gracefully arched both laterally and anteriorly. In the female, the diagnosis is rather more difficult, and rests largely on features that are only an accentuation of those normally encountered, namely, the thin, delicate skin, the narrow waist and the arched thighs, together with
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