Acquired Angioma of the Liver

exception of a few months at sea. He had enteric fever four years ago. No other illness. No haemorrhoids. Rarely missed work. He drank a good deal of whisky. Appetite good, but occasional retching in the mornings. No specific history. Family history.?Mother died of old age at 87. Father healthy, aged 89. His wife had had eleven children, of whom ten are alive ; eldest aged 23. No miscarriages. Condition on admission.?Big, well-nourished man. Decidedly jaundiced. Temperature, normal; pulse, 90 ; respirations, 28. Nothing abnormal found in heart or lungs. Arteries, not markedly thickened for his age; slight oedema of legs. Urine (first 24 hours' specimen), 22 ounces, brown, s.g. 1012, cloud of albumen, bile. Abdomen, greatly distended; signs of free fluid ;