Case of Suppurating Hydatid of Abdomen; Free Incision; Recovery.

Abstract

urine since early on Thursday morning; he felt sure that his bladder was empty, and that a small calculus had got impacted in his right ureter on Wednesday, and one in the left ureter on Thursday morning. I percussed the abdomen and found no evidence of retention in the bladder. On Saturday the 27th I found him complaining of slight pain in the loinp, but without bladder uneasiness. However, I thought it best to pass a catheter, and introduced a No. 10 silver. Finding the bladder empty and collapsed, I prescribed aperients and diaphoretics, with warm baths. The treatment was continued for two days by my brother, Mr. Albert Bell, who watched him during my absence from home till Monday, the 29th, when I saw him about noon. He was sweating, and had a distinct urinous odour in his breath and skin, but was almost free from pain. There was no alteration in his symptoms in the evening or on the next day, except that his wife said he twitched a good deal when asleep. On the Tuesday morning I aked my friend Mr. Nankivell to look at him with me. He thought the best hope was in continuing purgatives and diaphoretics, whether