Clinical lecture on tropical abscess of the liver / by Sir Dyce Duckworth.

  • Duckworth, Sir Dyce, 1840-1928.
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[1887]
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    Tropical Abscess of the Liver. Bv Sir Dyce Duckworth, M.D., F.R.C.P. Physician lo, and Lecturer on Clinical Medicine at, St. Bartholoinew's Hospital, Gentlemen,—The subject of hepatic abscess is one of great interest to all English students of medicine. It can- not fail that some of you will have to practise your profession in some part of our tropical possessions, and in these days, when locomotion is so rapid and easy, some of you will also as certainly not fail to have experience of this disease at home. I think it is not unlikely that abscess of the liver is now less often met with in the tropics than formerly. I have no facts to support this view, but I con- ceive it to be likely, because Europeans nowadays take better care of their health, eat and drink less than formerly, come home at shorter intervals to recruit their powers, and are thus less exposed to, and saturated with, malarial influence.* For twenty-one years I have had a special ex- perience of Anglo-Indians of all ranks in connection with the services of several of the great Indian railway'’ com- panies, and I may at once state that my experience of hepatic abscess as a cause of invaliding in these persons has not been extraordinary. To be sure, the worst cases have died in India or on their way home : others have had favourable, and generally rapidly favourable, terminations * Sir Joseph Fayrer, however, informs me that he thinks hepatic abscess is now as common as formerly.