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count of a pain in the right side of his breast, be- 

 hind the mamma, which was not removed hy bleed- 

 ing, or the application of a blister. He had no op- 

 pression or difficulty in breathing, and could sleep 

 on either side, or on his back, and his pulse was 

 not at all affected. He was relieved on coughing 

 up portious of h\ da':ids, and also some entire hyda- 

 tids, some of which were of the size of a hazlenut, 

 and others as large as a walnut, and he sometimes 

 coughed up tl ese in such quantity, as would have 

 jUlied a pint bottle. 



" The larger hydatids contained a clear viscid 

 liquor, and the smaller ones a yellow liquor, which 

 he said had a bitter taste. A few days before 

 coughing up the hydatids, the patient suffered very 

 acute pain in his breast, which he compared to that 

 of a pointed instrument entering his breast ; and 

 for two or three minutes before the hydatids were 

 discharged, he was seized with violent coughing, 

 and a sense of suffocation, which continued for two 

 or three minutes. For eight months afterwards, he 

 occasionally coughed up hydatids. The disease 

 began when he was fourteen years old. 



*^ We recommended to him the smoking of to- 

 bacco, and drawing the smoke as deeply as he 

 could into his chest. He did so, and during the 

 following eight years^ he had no return of his dis- 

 order. 



" Hydatids have frequently been accumulated 

 in considerable quantity within the cavity of the ab- 

 domen, and have proved an impediment to the pas- 



