An essay on the diseases of the bile, more particularly its calculous concretions, called gall-stones / [William White].

  • William White
Date:
1771
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Credit: An essay on the diseases of the bile, more particularly its calculous concretions, called gall-stones / [William White]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] years of age, wiio died of a dropfey, following an obftinate jaundice. He divided it into three portions ; to one he added fixed alcaline fait; but this occafioned no change in the colour, V/hich was a dark green. Into ano¬ ther he dropped fome fpirit of vitriol; into the third, common vinegar ; and obferved in both thefe a manifeft ef- fervefcence, with a change of the co¬ lour to a light green. The bile has a power in fome de¬ gree, of diffblving mucilaginous and refinous fubfcances; but by what I have been able to obferve, its adlion in this Cafe is limited. The bile is in ftriclnefs of two kinds, hepatic and cyftic; the former is thin-f ner, of a more dilute yellow colour, and left bitter; the cyftic bile is more elaborated, of a thicker confiftence, a deeper colour, and very bitter. But this being only the effedt of abforption, and as they mix together in the com-. ^ mon du6i: before they enter the intef- tines, they are in a medical view to be confidered as one and the fame fluid. It is a very thin and dilute fluid when fecreted, but acquires a greater con¬ fiftence by lying in the gall-bladder, froni t