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spine. Large haemorrhage in the right frontal lobe of
the brain. Very great oedema and congestion of the
lungs. Diffuse hæmorrhagic conditions were found in
almost every part of the body. The post-mortem
diagnosis was hæmorrhagic septicaemia, probably typhus
fever.
There was no evidence available as to how the
patient could have contracted the infection of typhus
fever. The home was clean, and no body-lice were
present in the bedding or clothing of the patient and
his family. No further case occurred. Summing up
the facts, I am of opinion that this case was not one
of typhus fever, but a hæmorrhagic septicœmia of
unknown toxic origin.