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which is marked by the subsidence of all pain, uneasi- 

 ness, and fever ; by the stools and urine assuming their 

 normal standard; by the reduction in the size of the 

 liver ; by a healthy tone in the chest and stomach ; by free 

 perspirations ; a clean tongue, keen appetite, and by a 

 free escape of blood from the hremorrhoidal veins; a 

 bilious diarrhoea, and a copious sediment in the urine. 



2. It may terminate in chronic inflammation, which 

 by judicious treatment may return to its original normal 

 condition. 



3. It may pass into the sub-acute state. 



4. It may occasion enlargement and other organic 

 lesions. 



5. It may implicate the biliary ducts, gall-bladder, 

 and cause permanent jaundice. 



6. It may give rise to various complications of neigh- 

 bouring organs; and 



7. It may terminate in one or more abscesses. 

 There are two kinds of abscesses found in the liver, 



the result of inflammation, the metastatic or pysemic, 



and the tropical abscess. 



The pyiemic abscesses are peculiar to Europe ; the 



tropical abscess to the East Indies and other hot 



regions : the pyaemic abscesses are small and numerous ; 



the tropical abscess stands alone. IJow comes this? 

 let us investigate their respective CAUSKS. 



The diagnosis of pyaemic abscesses will be greatly 

 simplified by keeping in view the circumstances under 

 which the disease usually occurs. The mode of for- 

 mation of these abscesses is well illustrated by 

 experiments made more than half a century ago by 

 Dr. Sanderson, and described by him in his admirable 



