Q88 OF HYDATIDS. 



tiplied like some vegetables, by the adhesion of the 

 smaller hydatids to the coats of the larger hydatids. 



<-' (i. That the coats of the bowels containing the 

 hydatids are much more frequently destroyed, than 

 when water only has been collected within them ; 

 hence the hydatids escape from their original 

 situation, and sometimes find their way by unnatur- 

 al passages into the intestines, urinary or biliary 

 canals, into the windpipe &c. 



'* 7* That many patients recover on the dis- 

 charge of hydatids. 



^^ 8. That hydatids may even, when adhering to 

 one of the bowels of the abdomen, be removed by 

 incision, providing there exists an adhesion between 

 that viscus and the parietes of the abdomen. 



NOTE. 



" Since the preceding sheets were printed, I accidently turn- 

 ed up the first volume^of the London Medical Communications, 

 and was much gratified to observe, that what I had affirmed might 

 have happened in the case treated by Dr. Home, had actually ta- 

 ken place in a case described by Dr. Foart Simmons, who had 

 stated, ' that on pressing the thorax, hydatids poured out in great 

 quantity from that cavity into the abdomen, and on introducing 

 a finger at the part, from which thej issued, we found that it had 

 passed with case into the thorax, through an opening in the up- 

 per and fleshy part of the diaphragm. 



"The sternum being now carefully removed, a most sin- 

 gular appearance presented itself to our view: On the right 

 side the liver was seen extending from the spine of the ilium up 

 to the fourth rib. 



" As the diaphragm was pushed so high up on that side, the 

 right lobe of the lungs was compressed into a very small space, 

 but without being apparently diseased. Tiie heart and pericar* 



