Many cases have been reported of the unusual location of the typhoid bacillus. Thus, the bacilli have been found in abscesses of the liver and spleen, in subphrenic abscesses, and in sacculated and general peritonitis, osteomyelitis, periostitis, etc. The following case, if not unique, seems sufficiently rare to justify recording it. Besides the unusual location of the typhoid bacillus, the definite history of a recent attack of typhoid fever is to be noted, and also the quantity of pus produced in which no other bacteria except the typhoid bacilli were found. Miss M. S., aged 21, schoolteacher, a native of this country, entered the New Haven Hospital, May 21, 1914, on account of enlargement of the lower part of the abdomen. About April 21 she first noticed a mass in the lower part of the abdomen, which rapidly enlarged but was accompanied by no pain. Last Christmas she was ill,