Chapter XXVI

for further reference to the pathology of hydatid cysts.)

=Treatment.=--The treatment is purely operative. The contents of the cysts should be evacuated and its walls radically destroyed by caustic, spoon, etc. All sequestra should be removed; in the limbs _amputation_ is sometimes necessitated by the extent of the affection.

=Actinomycosis.=--The general character of this parasitic disease has already been considered. (See