708 THE LIVEE. 



u (5) Lastly, some observers (Waldeyer, Zander) have discovered bacteria 

 in the atrophied liver. (In Zander's case, however, the autopsy was not per- 

 formed until fifty-eight hours after death.) " 



In 1854 and 1862 H. Lebert * gave a careful analysis of seventy-two 

 cases, together with an abstract of the literature of acute yellow atrophy 

 from 1660 to 1862. 



This subject has since been treated at length by A. Thierfelder, t who 

 brings down the discussion to 1877. I have examined twenty-eight con- 

 tributions published since this date, which, with the exception of that of 

 Dreschfeld, I find to consist chiefly of clinical reports. 



* Virchow's Arclriv, 1854, vii. 343 ; "Archives Generates tie MM.," 1862, i., 431. 

 t Ziemssen's " Cyclopedia," American edition, ix., 254. 



