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Without venturing to offer any particular account of tlie various 

 interesting features wticli the above cases severally presented, it 

 may be, at least, useful to refer, categorically, to the names of the 

 authors who have placed the cases on record. Those who desire 

 further information (as to certain cases) can easily obtain it by 

 turning to the Bibhography appended to this work, where, under the 

 appropriate names, they will find sufficiently minute references to 

 the works in which the origiual descriptions are recorded. Thus, 

 as regards hydatids of the hver and biliary passages, cases in 

 which death occurred are given by Elliotson, Rogers, G. Budd, 

 Hastings, Dickenson, Murchison, Buchanan, Barlow, Peacock, 

 Griffith, Salter (two cases), "Wilks, Bristowe (three cases). Pollock, 

 Beith, Davies, Freer, Crosse, A. T. Thomson, H. Thompson, 

 Hilton, Eees, Chambers, and Alison; also by Ingliot, GuUand, 

 Luschka, Hellier, and Dupuytren. The thirteen cases in which a 

 cure was effected either naturally or otherwise, are by W. Budd, 

 Sloane, Peacock, Rees, Robarts, Hutchinson, Brodie, Cholmeley, 

 Chereau, Richard, Recamier, Thorstensen, and Morrisseau. It 

 deserves to be mentioned that the cases by Sloane and Hutchin- 

 son were accurately diagnosed. In the cases recorded by Richard 

 and Recamier injections were employed, whilst, in many of the 

 others, cures were effected by a simple incision. In all these 

 instances, however, I believe the operators were uncertain as to 

 the nature of the tumour they had to deal with ; a persuasion 

 which, if not incorrect, argues very little in favour of Piorri's 

 so-called "hydatid fremitus " and other diagnostic symptoms. 



Of the nineteen abdominal cases there were twelve which ter- 

 minated fatally ; these being recorded by Crowther, Bailey, Trim- 

 neU, Hughes, Newman, Morley, Greenhow, Jones, G. Budd, Ogle, 

 Obre, and Angeli. The seven in which cures took place are 

 by Gaitskell, Gregory, Greenhow, Adams, BobiUier, Roux, and 

 Chaubasse. Several of these cures were entirely the result of 

 natural causes. In the case by Gaitskell it is estimated that fully 

 1000 hydatids were discharged ; and as they were accompanied by 



