An essay on the diseases of the bile, more particularly its calculous concretions, called gall-stones / [William White].

  • White, William, 1744-1790
Date:
1771
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Credit: An essay on the diseases of the bile, more particularly its calculous concretions, called gall-stones / [William White]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    » • • • ring together, every one of the lafl: has its own proper center; in this they refemble the urinary, and other kinds of animal calculi, ) Their fnrface is generally of a brown colour, fometimes black, re-r fembling jet; at others, though lefs frequent, of a white colour. Heifter took one out of the gall-bladder of a woman, of the fize of a wall-nut, of yellow colour, refembling a amboge. gree of coniiilency. Some of them being fo foft as to yield to an impref- fion made with the lingers ; in gene¬ ral you may crufli them to pieces with a moderate force, but are fome- \ times fo foiid as to require a fmart \ftroke of a hammer to break them. i\egarding their texture, they are ge¬ nerally fo foft, that you may eafily fhave then; with a knife, like a piece of hard Venice foap, they have now and then been obferved fo hard as tq refemble marble, but are moftly fri¬ able and brittle. ' They are for the mofl part of fmall fpecific gravity when compared with , their bulk; molt of them fwim in wa- ter. a reddifli piece of g