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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    and gritty compolition, refembliiig the urinary ones ; containing no bile in their compolition, and like them foluble in a ca[uliic alcali. Totally different from thofe are the true bili¬ ary calculi, both as to texture, com- pofition, and folubility. It is indeed doubtful whether the former comes from the biliary paffages, they more probably are concretions formed in the pancreas, that vifcus having been found full of calculi; or formed in the inteftines, there being many in- ftances of large inteftinal calculi of a llony or gritty texture, having a real gall-ftone for their nucleus. The true biliary calculi are only here meant, and whofe nature and compolition arc explained in the following effay. I thought it not amifs to begin with fome general remarks upon the liver, not only to fatisfy the reader not con- verfant with anatomy, but as the con- lideration of its attachments enables us to account for many fymptoms a- rifmg from Hones in the gall-bladder^ AN