An enquiry into the statistics and pathology of some points connected with abscess in the liver as met with in the East Indies / by Edward John Waring.

  • Waring, Edward John, 1819-1891.
Date:
1854
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Credit: An enquiry into the statistics and pathology of some points connected with abscess in the liver as met with in the East Indies / by Edward John Waring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    been gained by a few additional numbers, would have been more than counter-balanced by the objections which might reasonably have been raised as to the influence of climate, the different class of persons affected, the com- paratively unimpaired condition of the constitution in persons inhabiting a cold or temperate clime, &c., had cases occurring in England and other extra-tropical coun- tries been included in the list. From various sources, I have collected 300 cases of hepatic abscess which terminated fatally, 81 in which the contents of the abscess were evacuated by operation, (many of these are included amongst the fatal cases,) and 25 in which spontaneous recovery took place. It has • been found advisable to divide these into classes according to their respective terminations; and after a short detailed summary of the cases in each class, some deductions have been drawn, and such observations offered, as appeared to have an important bearing on the history and pathology of the disease under consideration. I much regret that in the arrangement of the fatal cases, considerable irregularity will be found to exist; this has arisen from three causes. 1st. In the list I originally compil- ed, all cases, whether terminating in recovery or in death, and also all those in which the abscess was punctured, were placed together; and at the same time they were carefully tabulated according to symptoms, and post mor- tem appearances; subsequently, I found, that for the pur- pose of elucidating facts, it would be far preferable to place each class by itself : this was accordingly done, and the vacancies caused by this arrangement, were filled up by the cases which came the last in the list; this was done in order to prevent the necessity of re-tabulating the whole number, which would have involved an immense amount of labour, and have taken up more time than I could afford to dedicate to it. 2ndly. In the list I first made, I confined myself solely to such cases as had something like a complete history attached to them ; and