efforts at artificial respiration were abandoned after fifteen minutes, during which time the patient was not induced to take a single breath.Permission for complete autopsy could not be obtained but we were allowed to remove the thymus, which was found to occupy its usual position behind the sternum. It showed two lobes with a centrally placed isthmus and measured 5 cm. long by 4 cm. wide by 1 cm. thick. It weighed 9 gm. The
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