OF HYDATIDS. 28S 



^^ This sac was found to contain numerous hy- 

 datids, some of which were very large, and on their 

 internal surface, there were cauliflower productions ; 

 others were placcid, ruptured, and apparently tend- 

 ing to putrefaction, but containing smaller hydatids, 

 which were entire and spherical, and all of them 

 tinned with bile. ' The liver was found placed on 

 the right side of the body, its right lobe was low 

 down on the right side, where it had been distinct- 

 ly felt during life ; it was somewhat hard, but oth- 

 erwise of natural appearance; almost the whole of 

 the left lobe was converted into an enormous sac, 

 similar externally to the former, occupying the tho- 

 rax, adhering to, and pushing up as far as the 

 third rib, especially on the left side of the dia- 

 phragm, which was very thin, and with difficulty 

 separated from it. This sac was found, when open- 

 ed, to be lined with a delicate membrane, similar 

 to that of the^rs^ sac^ but exhibiting no cauliflow- 

 er protuberances. Within it was contained a large 

 quantity of serous like fluid, and an immense num- 

 ber of hydatids of various magnitudes and colours, 

 and all of a spherical form, some exhibiting on their 

 internal surface, cauliflower like processes, others 

 containing smaller hydatids. 



" The gall-bladder and gall ducts were very 

 much enlarged. The other abdominal viscera 

 were much deranged in situation, but quite natural 

 in structure, excepting the left kidney, which was 

 much enlarged, and very flaccid. An hydatid of 

 some size adhered to the mesentery, and three 



