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.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    PREFACE. In conducting the following investigation, I have acted throughout in the character of a learner, an enquirer, a searcher after truth ; I have had no theories to support, no foregone conclusions to substantiate. The history of the following paper, and the circum- stances which led to its compilation, are simply these. On first joining the Indian Medical Service, two most highly interesting cases of hepatic abscess fell under my observa- tion in the Artillery Hospital at St. Thomas’s Mount, under the charge of my friend, Dr. George Pearse. I contrasted, in no complimentary manner as far I was concerned, his intimate and thorough knowledge of the disease he was treating, with my own ignorance of its history and pathology; and 1 resolved to allow no opportunity to pass, without making myself acquainted with it. I, accordingly, made notes of all such cases as fell under my observation in the course of my reading, and the notes thus collected, I now venture to put into print, feel- ing convinced that to a large number of young medical officers in India, they will prove an acceptable addition to our present stock of information on Indian diseases. To some of the senior members of the service, I also venture to hope that this investigation will be neither uninteresting nor unacceptable. The present enquiry is strictly limited to hepatic abscess as it occurs in the East Indies; and it will be seen that all the collected cases commenced, progressed, and ter- minated, (whether in death or in recovery,) in some por- tion of our Indian Possessions. This restriction was found necessary, in order to obviate many objections which might otherwise have been raised to the conclusions attempted to be drawn: the strength which would have