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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:53 CHAPTER III.PATHOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS.Although the gall-bladder and the bile ducts are liable to be the seat of benign and malignant growths, their organic diseases are nearly all dependent directly or indirectly on gall-stones.They are, however, liable to functional disturbance in the shape of catarrh, and in all probability many of the cases supposed to be cholelithiasis, but which are cured by dietetic and medical treatment, are of this nature. Very probably catarrh of the gall-bladder and its ducts is the beginning of many cases of cholelithiasis : a piece of mucus or a mass of epithelium forming the nucleus around which choles- terin and other bile solids are deposited.According to Bollinger, the frequency of gallstone disease varies very much in different localities. Thus in Munich the percentage of cases found post-mortem is 5'4, in Dresden 7, in Basle 8-8, while in Strasburg it amounts to 12'3. Taking the statistics of all cases found in Munich, Dresden, and Basle, the relative frequency of the disease in women ascompared with men is as five to two. As to the cause of this difference, Bellinger doubts the action of pregnancy, but believes more in the method of life and the manner of clothing. In support of the latter is to be noted the frequent association of gall-stones with constricted liver from tight-lacing; thus in 111 women with gall-stones, 37 had at the same time constricted liver. As young women under thirty suffer from the disease four times more frequently than men of the same age, the author considers tight-lacing of more consequence than pregnancy.The influence of age, as shown from over 5,000 post-mortem examinations, points to the frequency of the disease in advancing years. Thus, there were 27 per cent. in those from fifteen to thir... ... Read more

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In medicine, gallstones(choleliths) are crystalline bodies formed within the body by accretion or concretion of normal or abnormal bile components. Gallstones can occur anywhere within the biliary tree, including the gallbladder and the common bile duct. Obstruction of the common bile duct is choledocholithiasis ; obstruction of the biliary tree can cause jaundice; obstruction of the outlet of the pancreatic exocrine system can cause pancreatitis. Cholelithiasisis the presence of stones in the gallbladder or bile ducts: chole-means "bile", lithiameans "stone", and -sismeans "process". ... Read more

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Title: Quick diagnosis crucial in gallstone pancreatitis: gallstones should be suspected in every patient with acute pancreatitis who is also at risk for stones.(Clinical Rounds)
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Subtitle: Based Upon His Own Experience Gained in 433 Laparotomies for GallstonesGeneral Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1901Original Publisher: P. Blakiston's Son ... Read more

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Title: Coffee prevents gallstones (yeah, right!).(Editorial)
Author: Jane Phillips McCabe
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Date: August 1, 1999
Publisher: Lockwood Trade Journal Co., Inc.
Volume: 171Issue: 8Page: 9(1)

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