The Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh (Volume 15)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896. Excerpt: ... way in which they had received his paper. Some appeared to have misunderstood his object, which was not to formulate a proper dietary for children, but to give a risumi of the constitution of infants' foods as they occurred in the market. He did not wish to lay down any hard and fast rules. The mother's milk was in general the best. But certainly it was the worst food if the mother was unhealthy herself. In that he agreed with the Frenchman mentioned by Dr Gillespie. He entirely concurred with the other speakers, that most of these foods were unsuitable for children. At the same time, these foods were very largely employed, and he had tried to show in what circumstances they might be safely or even advantageously used. He emphasized the use of sterilized cow's milk as the next best to healthy mother's milk. Dr Black had asked him whether sugar might act as a preservative. He (Dr Robertson) thought that in the dilute form it would rather decompose. Porridge made of oat flour was no doubt an excellent food for children of a reasonable age when able to digest starch. 2. ENORMOUS PRIMARY SARCOMA. OF THE LIVER, IN WHICH A LARGE BLOOD CYST, SIMULATING A HEPATIC ABSCESS, WAS DEVELOPED. By Byrom Bramwkll, M.D., F.R.CP. Edin., F.R.S.E., Assistant Physician, Royal Infirmary; Lecturer on Practice of Medicine, School of Medicine. With Pathological and Microscopical Report by R. F. C. Leith, M.D., F.R.C.P. Ed., Pathologist, Royal Infirmary; Lecturer on Pathology, School of Medicine. The following case presents many points of pathological and clinical interest. The more important pathological features are: --(1) The rarity of primary sarcoma of the liver; (2) the large size of the tumour; (3) the fact that a large blood cyst (the cavity of which contained 53 ounces of a...