he readily agreed. It was at once performed, before a fair class of students, &c., in the usual way, only the tapping was not performed until the skin was well incised and reflected. Unfortunately asepsis had not been sufficiently thorough, and his eventual recovery was much delayed by suppuration in the scrotum. My largest hydrocele, in the Madras Geueral Hospital, previous to this, measured o...

A case of acute splenitis ending in suppuration occurred. The man had been ill for a considerable time at Loodiana with fever. A few days after rejoining head-quarters, he complained of great pain in the side, and the spleen was acutely tender and enlarged to the size of a large lish. It was leeched and blistered. A few days later, fluctuation could be felt in the spleen, and the pain continued...

cataract was uncomplicated, as far as was known. Of these, forty-seven resulted in good vision ; three, in dim vision ; and one had a closed pupil, the result of iritis, which can be eventually remedied ; whilst in the remaining two, suppuration of the eyeball occurred, probably from constitutional causes. In five cases the cataract had been previously couched by a native practitioner. In three...

Congenital oesophageal respiratory tract fistula presenting in adult life is rare. A tracheo-oesophageal and a broncho-oesophageal fistula presenting in a 22 year old female and 68 year male, respectively, are described. In both, symptoms of chronic recurrent pulmonary suppuration were initially attributed to alternative aetiologies, resulting in diagnostic delay and inappropriate management. C...