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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    nelius. A case related by Langius, epistola 57, tom. 2, is next given. Then follow two cases described by Goiter, in “libell. observ. anat. et chirurg.,” of persons who had died after having for a long time sufiered of jaundice, of wliich the cause was found, on dissection, to have been an accu- mulation of gall-stones in the gall-bladder and gall-ducts. This author also mentions the case of a woman who recovered from a very protracted jaundice after she had passed calculi in her excrements. This case is succeeded in Schenckius by those of Vesahus and Benivenius, and the annotation of Dodonseus. Some sentences from Cardanus follow, of which the first one only should properly stand where it is, as it contains reference to a man who had sufiered of that kind of scabies which is called lepra, and was found to have a gall-stone in his gall-bladder (lib. vii, “ Subtilit”). Tn the third quotation, from Cardanus, there appears to be no question of gall- stones, but only of an enlarged, so-called dropsical gall- bladder. Next follow quotations from Fallopius. Then another version 'of the case of Scriba (Schreiber), already alluded to on the occasion of the experience of Peucerus and Kentmann, is given. Crato, in a letter to Gesner which is pretixed to the works of Cordus, says that he had heard from Joan. Pontanus, that a very large calculus had been found in Scriba’s gall-bladder. Ferrandus brings two cases very similar to that of the Elector of Saxony. Tn the year 1567 he dissected a nobleman, and found five calculi in the urinary bladder, one in the gall-bladder, and one in the right kidney. On the 2nd of June of the same year, he found in the body of a military man of high rank a calculus in the urinary bladder, surrounded by a putrid fluid representing pure pus, several calculi in the kidneys, and one black, oval, rough, and small calculus in the gall-bladder.