1. The inflammation may terminate in resolution (Trousseau).
2. The abscess is opened by operation or spontaneously and the patient recovers.
3. Although the abscess is opened either by the surgeon or spontaneously, the suppurative process continues and the patient dies exhausted, usually with waxy viscera.
4. Perforation into the peritoneum, the pleura, or the lung causes death.
TREATMENT.—The main point in treatment is to discover the abscess and to open it. The longer the suppurative process goes on and the larger the abscess, so much the worse is the prognosis. It is proper to explore with the aspirator after the disease has lasted for a few days, even if no fluctuation can be made out. The abscess is to be opened and treated on antiseptic principles.
HÆMATURIA AND HÆMOGLOBINURIA OR HÆMATINURIA.
BY JAMES TYSON, A.M., M.D.