Abstract
In the course of bacillary dysentery of two children, acute enlargement of liver was observed. Liver biopsy revealed fatty infiltration in one case and plant cell-like appearance of hepatic cells in the other.
In three cases of nutritional dystrophy with acute infections, an increase in the size of liver was observed and this increase was, as was revealed by liver biopsy, due to cloudy swelling with fibrosis in 2 cases and to plant cell-like appearance of hepatic cells in the other.
Almost simultaneously with the occurrence of the hepatic enlargement in question, profuse sweating over the skin of upper abdomen was found in three out of the five cases with acute enlargement of liver.
