Bhawalpore State Sadar Hospital

exposure to cold and wet. Present state, i.e., condition on admission: The patient was brought in a doolee, aud I happened to be in the hospital at the time. He was in a moribund condition, with difficulty of breathing and inability to stand erect, on account of pain and extreme weakness. On examination, the right side of the chest was found bulging out at two points, one corresponding to the 8th, and the other to the 7th, intercostal spaces. The latter bulging was more near the sternum than the former, and situated exactly in the nipple line. These were the two places where the abscess was pointing. There was fever, temperature being 102'3?, pulse 109, dry cough, dyspnoea, enlargement of liver on all sides. Patient so weak as to be unable to mount the