are of hydatids. 



operation, the wound was carefully covered by 

 pledgets, and thick compresses, over which a broad 

 flannel roller was applied, in order to exclude 

 the air, to support the liver, and to keep the oppo. 

 site sides of the cyst contiguous. 



*' In a few days the patient became feverish ; 

 he suifered much from thirst, his pulse qiickertlian 

 common, and there was a discharge of purulent 

 matter from the sore, a suflBcient proof of previous 

 inflammation in the sides of the cavity, 



" The cure icas completed within ten weeks, 

 I have seen the patient frequently since he under- 

 went the operation. He has had no return of the 

 complaint. He is now nearly thirty nine years of 

 age, and enjoys perfect health, and is one of the 

 stoutest men in Edinburgh. It may be worth while 

 to observe, that in this case, and in case fourth, no 

 blood vessels were visible on the proper coats of the 

 hydatids, nor in two other such cases, in which the 

 blood vessels of the liver, and particularly the blood 

 vessels of the cysts, which contained the hydatids, 

 and which were of large size, and had been fillt'd with 

 coloured size injection. In all these four cases, no 

 part of the liquor which the hydatids contained co- 

 agulated ; when ardent spirits were mixed with it, 

 or by boiling it ; from which it appears that the 

 liquor, contained within the hydatid, is materially 

 different from that of a common dropsy of the belly, 

 or that of the ovarium. 



" Case 8. I had occasion to visit a man thirty 

 two years of age, with my father, in 1801, on ac- 



