“…The association of venous thrombosis in the viscera with thrombosis of peripheral veins has at'tracted the attention of several authors (Kyle, 1930 : Warner andDauphinee, 1936 ;Ficarra, 1946 ;Fisher et al, 1947 ;Gerber and Mendlowitz, 1949 ;North and Wollenman, 1952) and Williams (1954), writing on the subject of' sudden death from acute hamorrhagic pancreatic necrosis, described a case where thrombosis of the splenic vein and acute pancreatic necrosis occurred in a woman who had been suffering Srom thrombophlebitis of the veins of the right leg.…”