A treatise on gall stones : their chemistry, pathology and treatment. / By J. L. W. Thudichum.

  • Thudichum, J. L. W. (John Louis William), 1829-1901.
Date:
1863
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Credit: A treatise on gall stones : their chemistry, pathology and treatment. / By J. L. W. Thudichum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    illusions propagated by compilers have been dispelled, and diagnosis, I hope, has been made much more certain and easy. The rules for the treatment of gall-stone disease which I have given, although in their active or positive part they do not greatly differ from those observed hitherto, are decidedly negative in relation to certain energetic measures which up to the present time have been deemed applicable and useful in this disorder. While only a small number of these rules emanated from my own experience, all have in their turn been confirmed by it in cases which I attended either alone or in consultation. The treatment of biliousness—the disease which produces the casts of the bile-ducts and results in gall-stone disease, not the chimera which serves as the scape-goat of minds which are susceptible of satisfac- tion by a name without meaning—remains an open question until its symptoms are better ascertained and distinguished. The collection of illustrative cases given at the end of the treatise every reader will be able to enrich for himself from his own experience. The portrait of the mind of the Medical Society of London, as it exhibited itself in the age the representatives of which are now gradually passing away, was added as a standard of comparison for later enunciations or discussions to come. As the literature of Trance had been examined with such