Excerpt from The Dublin Journal of Medical Science, Vol. 107: January to June, 1899 I have elected to present the following case to the Medical rather than to the Pathological Section of the Royal Academy of Medicine, as the interest lies in its clinical quite as much as in its pathological aspect, and for the same reason I have designated it under the title of haemorrhagic ascites, as embodying its most prominent and, indeed for some weeks, its sole characteristic. It is the only case I have met with, or heard of, in which effusion of sero-sanguinolent fluid in the peritoneal cavity was so copious as to necessitate tapping, and _in which this necessity became so often imperative, and at such short intervals, if life was to be prolonged. Mr. G., aged forty-two, married, of a healthy, clear complexion, a full build, weighing over 14 stones, came under my care on Sept. 30, 1897, on the recommendation of Thomas Parr, MD, of Drogheda, complaining of gastric symptoms, a sense of fulness and hardness in the epigastrium, with a feeling of soreness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.