Hepatic Abscess Opened Antiseptically: Death

Cancer of the Pancreas; Simulating Hepatic Abscess; Death; Autopsy

mon disease, but the circumstances under which it presented itself in this case, were more than likely to lead to a false diagnosis. A large fluctuating tumour occupying the right hypochondrium, epigastrium, and a part of the left hypocliondrium, attended with anaemia, and the characteristic diarrhoea of an abscess bursting into the intestiues, is strongly suggestive of the existence of a hepat...

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

Remarks on Hepatic Abscess

Hepatitis and Hepatic Abscess

little book. The author starts by explaining clearly and briefly his theory of " hepatic exhaustion," which he advanced some years ago in this journal. " In the tropics," he contends, " the liver is called upon to excrete a large amount of hydrocarbons which would in temperate climates pass off" by the lungs, while at the same time it has to rid the system of the products of excessive blood des...