Major Henry Smith claimed in his memoirs that the kidney received by Lusk matched the one missing from Eddowes, because the length of renal artery attached to the kidney matched the missing length from the body, and both the body and kidney showed signs of Bright's disease. Smith's later recollection does not match the medical reports submitted by the examining pathologists or the police records.Cook, pp. 147–148; Evans and Rumbelow, p. 168; Fido, pp. 78–79 Police surgeon Brown said that the kidney had been trimmed up, and that the renal artery was entirely absent.Cook, p. 148; Evans and Rumbelow, p. 168; Evans and Skinner, p. 189 Metropolitan police memos state that the kidney could have come from any body, such as those found in a hospital morgue.Evans and Rumbelow, p. 168; Evans and Skinner, p. 187; Fido, pp. 78–79
