Liver Abscess in a Female

S., a Mu sal man female of respectable family, was operated on for liver abscess bj7 me during the first week of September 1905. She recovered gradually, the wound being healed by the middle of December. She was again brought to the hospital on ,28th April 1908. She stated that, about a month previously, she got high fever with rigors, and pain in the right hypochondrium. The fever continued, though after about twelve days its height diminished, the pain increased, and profuse perspiration reduced her strength ; she felt nausea and frequently vomited, and her eyes became jaundiced. No history of drink or dysentery ; but has suffered from repeated attacks of malarial fever. No specific disease. Present condition.?Bowels costive, face waxy, eyes jaundiced. Heart normal, spleen not enlarged, slight cough, and no sign of disease in lungs. Temperature varies from 99 in morning to 101 in evening; was 998 at time of operation. Scar of previous operation visible in right hypochondrium, where the skin pits on pressure, and an indurated ring can be felt round a