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Table IV. — Leucocytosis in liver abscess among Filipinos. 



Number. 



6. 000-10, 000. 

 10,001-15.000. 

 16,001-20,000- 

 20.001-25,000. 

 25,001-30,000. 

 (.) 



Total 



Cases re- 

 covered. 



4 

 9 

 4 

 2 

 1 

 2 



22 



Fatal 



4 

 4 

 5 

 1 

 

 2 



16 



Total. 



8 

 13 

 9 

 3 

 1 

 4 



38 



" Count not made. 



We note in this table that eight cases had a count between 

 6,000 and 10,000, which is practically normal. 



Rogers (22) has pointed out that in liver abscess the increase 

 in the polynuclears is less marked than in cases of septic 

 infection. 



Table V shows the variation in polynuclear counts in our cases. 



Table V. — Polymorphonuclear leucocytosis in liver abscess among Filipinos. 



Per cent. 



Cases re- 

 covered. 



Fatal 

 cases. 



Total. 





1 

 1 

 1 

 5 

 4 

 2 

 4 

 

 4 



22 





 

 



1 

 1 

 5 

 3 

 2 

 4 



16 



1 



1 

 1 

 6 

 5 

 7 

 7 

 2 

 8 



38 



60-65 



66-70 



71-76 



76-80.__ 



81-85. - 



86-90 _ 



91-95 •.--. 



(») 



Total 





* Count not made. 



The two cases with counts above 91 per cent may be accounted 

 for in one instance by a colon bacillus infection and in the second 

 by the presence of an independent empyema in the lungs, not 

 secondary to rupture of the abscess. Chalmers and Archi- 

 bald, (29) in their recent work on the importance of diflferential 

 counts in uncomplicated intestinal amoebiasis, call attention to 

 the presence of eosinophilia without the presence of worms. 

 The same authors emphasize the mononuclear leucocytosis esr 

 pecially in latent cases as means for diagnosis. If this be the 

 case with uncomplicated cases of intestinal amoebiasis, can we 

 not apply the same principle in hepatic amoebiasis of uncompli- 

 cated variety? However, in our series there is only one case 



