A Case of Hepatic Abscess, with Remarks
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Under the care op Surgeon John C. Lucas, II. J/.'.? 23rd Iteyt., Bombay N. L. Infantry. The following notes, which are almost a transcript from the writer's note-book, will, it is hoped, be deemed sufficiently interesting to warrant their publication in these columns. History.?Patient, Private F.. H. M.'s 63rd Regiment of Foot, set. 24 years, length of service 4 years, says he was well up to the time he was quartered at Gulistan in the Peshin,? from the beginning of May to the 4th of July, 1881, when (in consequence of the defeat of the Ameer's forces by Sirdar Ayoob Khan, the Afghan hero now of historic renown,) he proceeded with the detachment of his regiment to rejoin its head-quarters at the Kojack range of mountains, and it wasvery soon after this, he says, that he took ill with dysentery (in reply to question, describing having passed blood and slime). He was in hospital there (in tents) for this for eighteen days ; he then began to experience " pains" in the right shoulder ; has had swelling of the abdomen (dropsy) for about five weeks ; complains of severe pain in the side? pointing to the right hypochondrium and epigastrium? which, he answers, in reply to inquiry, he has had for about five weeks, also. About the 2nd of August, the patient says, he was transferred from the hospital of his regiment to a " field hospital." He had been, it appears, suffering from, fever more or less during his stay on the Kojack. From a slip of paper which was received under the signature of one of his former medical attendants, we gleaned, that abscess of the liver was suspected to exist, though it was not quite clear whether the chilliness and shivering he experienced towards evening were actual rigors or merely due to the
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