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ON THE RE-ABSORPTION OF PUS. 
there is debility, and the appetite fails. Wash the wound with 
an infusion of aromatic plants, and dress it with lint impregnated 
with tincture of bark. Emollient fomentations. Give mutton 
broth to drink. 
April 27thj 2Sth, 29th» —The emaciation has made rapid pro¬ 
gress ; the animal is more enfeebled every day, and the cough is 
more frequent, but weaker. Suppuration is yet abundant, and 
the pus seems to be pure, and of a grey colour. Dress with 
strong digestive ointment twice in the day; and give, internally, 
bark wine diluted with water. 
30^A.—The patient refuses to eat; other circumstances the 
same. Continue treatment. 
Map —The wound is all at once become dry and covered 
with soft, black eschars—the cough feeble, and scarcely to be 
heard—the gait staggering, and diarrhoea is commencing. Wash 
the wound with chloride of soda; mixtures of gum to drink; 
injections of a decoction of poppy heads. 
2dy Sri, Ath, and bth. —The diarrhoea is become continual and 
fetid, and the patient is gradually sinking. She died on the 
morning of the 6th. 
Examination. —The left lung is adherent to the thorax through 
a space corresponding with the external wound. False mem¬ 
branes have caused this adhesion, but they do not appear to be 
more than twelve or fifteen days old. Two reservoirs (foyers) 
of thick pus, resembling tuberculous matter, are at a little dis¬ 
tance from each other towards the dorsal edge of the lung. The 
pulmonary substance which surrounds these foyers is not changed. 
A few depots of a similar matter, but very small, are scattered 
through the right lung; some of them are surrounded by a slight 
ecchymosis, others are in contact with sound tissue. The blood 
contained in the left cavities of the heart is very fluid, and small 
in quantity: that in the right cavities, a much greater quantity, 
is formed into a firm clot, exactly moulded to the internal surface 
of the ventricle and the auricle, and occupying the whole of the 
cavity. Almost a fourth of the clot is formed of chronic coagu- 
lum; the rest is one firm mass of yellowish-white coagulum. 
No alteration in the mucous membrane of the digestive tube, 
not even in the lower intestinal passages, although diarrhoea had 
existed five days. 
All the left lobe of the liver was softened—it was in a manner 
dissolved. We found in its substance four or five foyers, not 
regularly circumscribed, contaiidiig a sanious matter resembling 
that which ran from the ulcer during the first days after her 
arrival at the hospital. 
It should not be forgotten, that the liver is one of the viscera 
