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:
MDCCCLXIII. [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 King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    angles, or the reverse, oil the stone to be obtained from the stools. The size of the calculi varied from that of a mustard seed up to a peppercorn; but they were all angular and flat-sided, some having three, and others four or five sides, like bits of mosaic. Case 4.—An extremely fat woman is reduced to excessive leanness by the sufferings caused by a gall-stone, but recovers her obesity after having parted ivith the con- cretion, (Communicated by G. Tate, Esq.) Mrs. R—, aged about sixty-seven, a rough farmer’s wife, ‘mother of a large family, excessively corpulent (so much so, that in addition to her general obesity a large number of fatty tumours were deposited upon her arms, legs, and body), was attacked with urgent symptoms of gall-stones, followed by jaundice. After the first attack there was an interval of rest for a few days, and then a recurrence of the same symptoms as before, in an aggravated form. They con- tinued to return at intervals of a few days, the pains being tremendous, for many weeks, the jaundiced skin remaining all the time, sometimes of a deep yellow, and at last of an orange-green colour. The alvine evacuations were almost always white as chalk, but no gall-stone could be found in them. Her body, from being loaded with fat was reduced in about seven weeks to a mere shadow, all the fatty deposits disappearing. About two months after the first seizure, and when worn down with the great suffering and prostration of strength, she had occasion to go to the night- chair, and heard a hard substance fall into the pan. Being a woman as grossly ignorant, and surrounded by others equally so, in mind, as she had been grossly fat and vulgar in person, instead of preserving the stone until Mr. Tate’s next visit (as she had been instructed to do in case of its