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morbid effects, a communication may have been opened between 

 that tumour, (alluding to the tumour situated above the navel,) 

 and a branch of the trachea ?' From what had occurred in sev- 

 eral of the preceding cases, it seems to me certain, that such a 

 communication had existed, and that the hydatids which were 

 discharged by coughing, had been generated within the liver."] 



'^ In the second volume of the Medico Chirur- 

 gical Trans, p. 260, is a case of hydatid in the 

 braio. 



" A robust young woman began to complain of 

 pain, and of swimming in her head, about the year 

 1808. 



" These symptoms were always increased by 

 motion, particularly by stooping. 



*^They continued till April 1810, when she 

 was seized, without any previous warning, with a 

 fit. The surgeon who saw her at this time was 

 struck with the complaint she made of a fixed acute 

 pain of the head, and with the ferrety appearance 

 of h«r eyes. For some time afterwards she had a 

 fit every third or fourth week. On the twentieth 

 of August, she had three fits in one day, accompa- 

 nied by derangement of the stomach, by screaming, 

 and other indications of great sufferings. These 

 attacks continuing till September, she had theft 

 nearly lost her hearing. Shortly afterwards she 

 lost the sight of her right eye, and in fourteen days 

 more, that of her left, 



** Her smell was completely gone, and the ol- 

 factory nerves were insensible to the stimulus of 

 hartshorn ; lier speech and power of deglutition 



