HEPATIC ABSCESS; ASPIRATION; RECOVERY.

A Case of Hepatic Abscess: Operation and Recovery

Territory, Rajputana, came to the hospital, suffering from abscess of the liver. Previous history.? Last winter (1896) he suffered from acute lobar pneumonia, and lias been suffering from chronic dysentery and malarial fever of an intermittent kind for the last three months. He complained of pain in the hepatic area. Present condition?I. General.? Very weak and prostrate (typhoid condition) ; c...

Hepatic Abscess

be considered as defending him. I have merely to deal with Surgeon-Captain Younge's article. Surgeon-Captain Younge starts with the assumption that all dysenteric hepatic abscesses must be due to micro-organisuas absorbed from the intestine, and that the post-viortern condition of the radicles of the portal veiu leading away from the ulcerated parts of the gut must be similar to that seen in th...

Hepatic Abscess

Liver Abscess Treated by Aspiration

months in spite of treatment. He was much exposed to cold, and then dysentery supervened ; this lasted for some time, and as soon as it got better he noticed his liver began to swell; this has continued to increase up to present time accompanied with great pain, sense of weight, and difficult breathing. On examination, liver was found to extend below the umbilicus in front and nearly as low pos...

Remarks on Hepatic Abscess