When permission is withheld for the removal of the neck-organs they may be examined _in situ_, by freeing the skin of the neck by a subcutaneous dissection, cutting the lobes and isthmus of the thyroid in place and then opening the trachea and larynx by an anterior median incision. The salivary glands, parathyroids, cervical lymphnodes, vessels and nerves can all be examined by this method without removing the organs as a whole. In cases of aortic aneurism, corrosive poisoning, carcinoma of œsophagus, trachea or bronchi, it is best to remove the neck-organs in connection with the thoracic, removing first the neck-organs down to the clavicles and then stripping all down to the diaphragm, where they may be cut off and examined outside of the body. In cases of poisoning it is often necessary to remove the œsophagus in connection with the stomach. The mass of neck- and thoracic organs are removed as far as the diaphragm and then allowed to lie over the edge of the thorax or are turned down over the abdomen so that the œsophagus is upward and the tongue toward the prosector. The œsophagus and aorta are then separated from the other organs and left in the thorax to be examined later in connection with the abdominal organs. If the thoracic duct was not examined when the thoracic organs were, it may be examined after the section of the neck-organs is finished, but it is more easily found after the method given above by turning the right lung over into the left side of the thorax and then looking for it in the neighborhood of the diaphragm, on the right side behind the aorta and between it and the azygos vein. It runs upward toward the left to the body of the last cervical vertebra, then over the left subclavian artery downward to the left innominate vein. II. POINTS TO BE NOTED IN EXAMINATION OF THE MOUTH- AND NECK-ORGANS. 1. =Mouth.= Contents (blood, mucus, stomach-contents, foreign-bodies, etc.), color of mucosa (normally grayish-red), vesicles (aphthæ), cheilitis, gingivitis, various forms of stomatitis, noma, scorbutus, Ludwig’s angina, ulcers (syphilis, carcinoma, decubital, tuberculosis), hyperkeratosis, macrocheilia, thrush, scars, wounds, action of corrosives, lead-line, neoplasms, etc. Note pillars of fauces, size, shape and condition of uvula. If the teeth have not been inspected during the general examination they should receive attention at this time. Note malformations, anomalies, neoplasms (adamantoma, odontoma, dental osteoma, various forms of cysts, epulis, giant-cell sarcoma, papilloma, fibroma, etc.)