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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    [ -19 ] When it is fecreted or excreted in too plentiful a manner, but ftill re¬ taining its healthful qualities, it fel- dom occafions great uneafmefs; but goes off in a fpontaneous bilious dir- rhoea. It may be fecreted too fparingly for the purpofes of the oeconomy; this will be the caufe of many obftinate difea- fes, with all the confequences of an imperfeft chylopooefis. It is deceafed in quality, chiefly by contracting a dangerous acrimony, either acid, alcaline, or putrid. The confequences of thefe morbid condi¬ tions of the bile are eafiiy underftood, if we have a juft idea of its nature, properties, and ufe in an healthy ftate. The fymptoms of an acid tendency in the bile, are flatulencies, acidities, crudities in the firft paffages, loofe ftools of a pale yellow colour, or greenifh with a fouriflr imell; cardi- algia, voracious appetite, fpafms, an imperfect afiimilation of the chyle; hence, a thin poor watery blood, acid fweats, the blood being in this ftate incapable of properly ftimula- ting the animal foiids, gives rife to obftructions, / I