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submitted to four operations for liver abscesses in as many months and 

 was still suffering from severe pain and high fever, being in a very pre- 

 carious condition. He was at length put on ipecacuanha, and quinine 

 irrigation was adopted. The next day his pain had almost gone, the 

 temperature rapidly fell, and he began to recover from that time, although 

 several weeks were required for the healing of his extensive wounds. I 

 have seen him in very good health a year after leaving the hospital, and 

 he has recently passed a medical examination for employment as an 

 engineer on a large railway. He was so impressed with the immediate 

 relief afforded to him by the ipecacuanha that he continued to take it 

 daily for a year after his recovery. In fact, I attribute not a little of 

 the recent improvement in the results of the treatment of liver abscess 

 in the Calcutta hospitals to the adoption of a routine course of ipecacuanha 

 in the after-treatment of liver abscesses, however they may be dealt with. 



