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several biliary calculi, there can be little doubt that the original 

 hydatid cyst had its seat in the liver. In the case by Chaubasse 

 about 600 hydatids were evacuated from an abdominal abscess ; 

 whilst in the somewhat similar but fatal case by Crowther, it is 

 averred that, in addition to numerous hydatids, the cyst contained 

 upwards of six gallons of purulent matter. 



The sixteen brain cases are by Bree, Berncastle, Barker, Ben- 

 nett, Brittan, Bailey (two cases), Baillinger, Dagleish, Stewart, 

 Wilson, Sturton, Montault, Guerard, Martinel, and Seville. These, 

 of course, were all fatal. In the case recorded by the last-named 

 author, the acephalocysts were situated immediately beneath the 

 arachnoid membrane.* 



In Hke manner, as will be supposed, the eight heart cases were 

 all fatal. They are severally recorded by Wilks, Gr. Budd, Coote 

 (two cases), Price, R. Smith, Trotter, and Vines. The single in- 

 stance of hydatids occurring in the cavity of the pericardium is given 

 by Habershon in the " Pathological Society's Transactions." 

 Amongst the eight lung cases, but one cure appears to have taken 

 place, and, in this instance, only a portion of the hydatid seems to have 

 been expectorated. It is recorded by Hutchinson ; the fatal examples 

 being by Black, Bainbridge, Cholmeley, Rogers, Todd, Fouquier, 

 and Dupuytren. The example of hydatids in the blood is by 

 Klencke. The two spleen cases are both from foreign sources 

 (by Groyrand and Legroux), as is also the instance where some 

 two hundred hydatids occupied a cyst attached to the under sur- 

 face of the diaphragm (by Pohl). All these were fatal. The four 

 cases of hydatids aflfecting the kidneys are severally described by 

 Barker, Ward, Dunn, and FusseU. That by Ward is a doubtful 

 instance of cure ; the others proved fatal. The three examples of 



* Dr. William Anderson, L.R.O.S.E., Eesident Physician at the Birmingham General 

 Hospital, has recently favoured me with a communication in which he states that he has 

 met with no less than /our cases of hydatids of the human brain, in each of which he 

 succeeded in demonstrating the presence of hooks after death. In two of the cases 

 " the diagnosis was given with tolerable certainty." I need hardly add that I look for- 

 ward, with great interest, to the publication of these cases. — T. S. C. 



