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operation, and the patient was eventually cnred. 

 In a similar case, under the charge of M. Richard, 

 the tumour was opened by means of a puncture, and 

 two drachms of pure alcohol were injected into the 

 cyst, after its contents had been discharged, and 

 before the canula was withdrawn ; acute pain was 

 produced, but it subsided after a few minutes ; 

 the case progressed favourably, and in three months 

 afterwards no traces of the tumour remained. 



The injection of bile into the interior of hydatid 

 cysts has been recently proposed, upon two different 

 grounds ; one, that the contact with the biliary fluid 

 would kill the hydatids ; and the other, founded 

 upon a case of hepatic cyst, in which the bile flowed 

 abundantly into the abscess and the pus soon ceased 

 to be formed, that the bile possesses an antiseptic 

 property. The only instance of the actual injection 

 of bile occurred in the practice of M. Yoisin ; the 

 repeated injections of the ox-gall, which was used, 

 did not give rise to any pain, and no symptoms of 

 punilent infection presented themselves, but the 

 patient unfortunately died of pneumonia about a 

 month afterwards. At the post-mortem examination 

 of the body, the internal surface of the cyst was 

 found to be smooth, and of a very healthy appear- 

 ance ; it had considerably diminished in size. 



