parts of the body, | | soft, easily lacerated, especially the head and | | and of a pale colour. abdomen. | | | | CASE XVIII. Mary Hopkins, | Erysipelas | Low inflammation of a æt. 19. Ulceration of the | appeared a week | portion of the left cartilages, followed by | after | lung; dark-coloured suppuration of the knee- | amputation; | patches of deposit in joint; amputation; | sixteen days | the spleen. erratic erysipelas over | before death. | various parts. | | | | CASE XIX. John Wilkinson, | Pain in the | Turbid serum in the æt. 56. Compound fracture | right side a | right pleural cavity; of the right tibia; | week after his | incipient secondary inflammation around the | admission. | abscesses in both lungs; wound, with collections | | large cysts in the of matter; slight | | delirium; sickness. | | | | CASE XX. James Bryant, æt.| Twenty-four days| Bone exposed to the 20. Scalp wound, denuding | after the | extent of a shilling, of the bone; puffiness of the | accident; five | a yellow colour, and scalp upon the eighteenth | days before | with a very dark diploë; day; rigors, followed by | death. | effusion of lymph and profuse perspirations; | | pus between the dura restlessness; delirium; | | mater and the bone, projection of the | | extending to the base of eyeballs. | | the skull, and through | | the sphenoidal fissures | | into the orbits; effus- | | ion of pus into the | | arachnoid cavity; incip- | | ient secondary abscesses | | in the lower lobe of the | | left lung; spleen large, | | and very soft, mottled; | | degeneration of both | | kidneys. | | CASE XXI. James Williams, | Ten weeks | Large cavity containing æt. 41. Fracture of the | after the | foul matter, in contact lower extremity of the | accident; | with the sacrum, which left radius; diffuse | one week | was exposed; abscesses cellular inflammation of | before death. | between the bones of the