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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    To this succeed some remarks of Gemma from ‘ Cos- mocrit.,’ lib. i, cap. vi, which I have not quoted above, although I have given some cases related by Gemma in the same place, after Donatus, which cases, strangely enough, are not given by Schenckius. Gemma states his general experience that he had found calculi in the gall- bladder, caused, he believed, by inflammation of the nearest intestines, or by long-continued obstructions. They were angular, black externally, internally yellowish, and fre- quently of various colours. Out of a dropsical person he took thirty-two calculi, of which the smallest corresponded to the size of a pea, the largest to that of a filbert. After a reference to the scholiographer of Ilollerius, Schenckius reports the statement of Turneiserus (lib. “ De TTinis”), according to which, in the gall-bladder of the Markgraff John of Brandenburg, a green calculus of the size of a walnut was found. As confirming these data by similar experience, the names of several authors are mentioned, some of which I have already quoted. Others we here learn for the first time, e.g. Arculanus, Alex. Benedictus, Monterus, Thom, a Veiga, Scholiograph. adlibell. Gal. deloc. affectis. Further observations quoted by Schenckius—Forest, schol. ad observ. 26, lib. 14; Solenander, in ‘ Cons, med.,’ sect, v, cons. 16 (calculus found in the gall-bladder of the Duke of Cleves); the same, cons. 15, relates that, anno 68 (query 1568), a hundred calculi of the size of seeds of the pomegranate or of Indian corn, were taken out of the gall- bladder of Henry, Duke of Brunswick. A case from the observations of Joachim Camerarius is next in order, in which 143 calculi in the gall-bladder, scirrhus of the liver, and enlargement of the spleen to the size of the liver, were complicated with calculi in both kidneys and a rupture of the size of a head. Then follows another fatal case of