The demonstration here of multiple tubercles in the pleura of patients with tuberculous effusion would tend to indicate that direct pleural involvement in tuberculous pleural effusion is far more extensive than previously believed. Schuman 10 cites Jacobeus as noting multiple pleural tubercles in patients with effusion who were ex¬ amined by thoracoscopy. Auerbach (see table).Furthermore, there is no evidence that hypertension played a role in this disease process.
The examination of insect larvae from decomposed bodies not only can serve in the estimation of the postmortem interval but also can be used in qualitative identification of drug substances.
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