On the treatment of hydatid tumours of the liver / by John Harley.

  • Harley, John, 1833-1921.
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[1883]
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Credit: On the treatment of hydatid tumours of the liver / by John Harley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mation in the sac, a condition which calls too loudly for relief to be neglected. But in those cases, or, at least, iu most of them—my observation bids me say in all—where a cure seems to have been effected, the disease progresses insidiously just as it did at first, but sooner or later declares itself in a more extended form. Old hydated cysts, like the corms of the colchicum or the crocus, readily produce a new one by their side. I hold it therefore to be bad practice, and, on the evidence, unjustifiable practice, to approach a hydatid cyst with any other intention than that of completely emptying it and healing up the space that held it. Dr. Jonas Jonassen, of Reykjavik, Iceland, has obligingly sent me through Dr. Magnusson, of Cambridge, his ' Doctor's Thesis on the Echinococcus Disease of Iceland.'1 He gives an account of seventy-four cases, many of which are hydatids of the liver. If my knowledge of Icelandic had been sufficient for the purpose, or if I could have secured the services of an inter- preter in time for this paper, I would have given a synopsis of these cases. Under the circumstances I am obliged to be content with calling attention to Dr. Jonassen's interesting treatise. Postscript to Case \, p. 306, vol. viii, ' St. Thos. Hosp. Rep.'—Shortly after leaving the hospital, in May, 1878, the patient married, and on 28th of June, 1883, she wrote to me in part as follows :— In March last my husband died after a long illness. I have three little children. With regard to my health, I may just say that, with all the extra pressure upon both mind and body, I have not been laid aside even for a day. My restoration has been perfect. 1 ' EHnokoksygdommen, belyst ved Islandske Lagers erfaring.' Copenhagen, 1882. HUNT-BP BT J. E. APLAIIP, BAllTHOI.OHEW CLOSE.