Extirpation of the Spleen

rest all belong to the present century. If his own case is reckoned as a recovery, the mortality is 73 per cent'.; if otherwise, the mortality is 76; the recoveries being twelve or eleven out of the forty-two cases, according as this is or is not reckoned as belonging to that category. The cause of the eleven deaths was septicemia in one case, peritonitis in one case, and hasmorrhage either during or shortly after the operation in all the others. Dr. Podrez thinks that