CAUSE OF HEPATIC ABSCESS.

Cause of Hepatic Abscess

In the first place, I said that "gluttony aud intemperance " were not, as emphatically stated by Dr. Harley, the chief causes of liver diseases among Europeans in India. Aud secondly, I corrected Dr. Harley's conclusion, that if Europeans in India were not gluttons aud intemperate from the " habitual indulgence in rich food and strong drink," and lazy, they would not be subject to liver disease...

Tracking the foreign body, a rare cause of hepatic abscess

BACKGROUND Foreign body ingestion complicated by perforation of the digestive tract is a well-known occurrence. Contrary to this, perforation by fishbones has most often been described in South East Asian populations, and has the unusual characteristic of often being paucisymptomatic until secondary complications occur. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 56 year-old man of asian origin...

Hepatic Abscess

be considered as defending him. I have merely to deal with Surgeon-Captain Younge's article. Surgeon-Captain Younge starts with the assumption that all dysenteric hepatic abscesses must be due to micro-organisuas absorbed from the intestine, and that the post-viortern condition of the radicles of the portal veiu leading away from the ulcerated parts of the gut must be similar to that seen in th...

Hepatic Abscess

Case of Hepatic Abscess

Jadxj Nath Bose, a resident of Entally, aged 47 years, was attacked, on the night of -5th February, 1868, with langcur, followed by chilliness, fever, and pain of an acute lancinating nature, very deeply seated, in the right hypochondrium. The patient soon after received a dose of compound jalap powder with calomel, by which his bowels were freely moved four times, but without any effect on the...