130 LARGE HEPATIC ABSCESSES. 



the seventeenth he died. A post-mortem found all the 

 organs apparently healthy; but an accidental puncture 

 of the liver with the scalpel, laid open an abscess the size 

 of an orange, filled with yellowish white pus destitute of 

 odour. Inman, of Liverpool, gives us the case of a woman, 

 aged 45, who died in the Liverpool Infirmary, in whose 

 liver was found three abscesses containing about 20 

 ounces of matter. Frerichs gives two cases of large 

 abscesses in the liver, the existence of which was not 

 indicated during life by any local or constitutional 

 symptoms. One was that of a man ast. 34, who had 

 been treated for chronic inflammation of the kidneys, 

 and exudation into the left pleural cavity. A 

 mortem brought to li.uht an abscess in the right lohe of the 

 liver, 5i inches in diameter. The >econd case occurred 

 in an aged man, whose autopsy revealed a cavity in the 

 right lobe of the liver the size of a goose's egg, filled 

 with greenish yellow pus. 



Abscesses of tin; liver sometimes attain an extraordi- 

 nary size. In one ins- Id estimated the quantity 

 at two quarts. Annesly in one case found ninety 

 ounces; Inman, of Liverpool, another which contained 

 the enormous quantity of 13 pints. In September, 

 1 870, I met with a very interesting case of abscess of 

 the liver, which, from its exact measurement, must 

 have contained at least two quarts of matter, and which 

 forms the subject of the following notes: T. J., n-t. 44, 

 dl, well-built man, of a somewhat swarthy com- 

 plexion, consulted me on September 6, 1870. 



HISTOKY. He had resided on the southern slopes of 

 the South American continent for some years 

 Chili as manager to a copper ore mine. He was a free 



