Hydrocele of the Neck

SOOKSLVM, a Hindoo widow, aged about 40, resident of a village about 15 miles distant from the station, presented herself at the Civil Hospital, Mannargudi, on the morning of the 5th October 1875, with a large tumour on the right side of the neck. It was smooth, elastic, translucent, and fluctuating, and in size somewhat larger than a common orange. The tumour made its appearance about two years and a half before the patient applied for treatment, and gradually attained the size above mentioned. The woman described it as being for the most part painless, though at times it was attended with