Abdominal Abscess Caused by Ascaris Lumbricoides

two months' duration. It started as a painful red swelling of the size of a walnut in the right iliac fossa which burst after about a week, leading up to the present sinus. State on admission The patient was very emaciated, pale and of poor nutrition. On examination the sinus was found deep, leading almost to the peritoneum. The sinus was opened along with its offshoots in the abdominal wall, its wall scraped and was plugged with iodoform gauze. On the third day after the operation the patient complained of gnawing pain in the wound and on removing the dressings a yellowish white thread-like body presented itself in the wound which on being pulled out was found to be a small Ascarii Lumbrir.oides. The worm had evidently burrowed through the intestinal wall and peritoneumas has been described occurring in some