On gall-stones and their treatment / by A.W. Mayo Robson.

Date:
1892
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Credit: On gall-stones and their treatment / by A.W. Mayo Robson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The same evening the patient had a sharp attack of biUaiy coHc. A small hypodermic injection was given, Avhich reheved the pain, and from this time she had not a single bad symp- tom. On May 15th the wound was dressed and found to be perfectly healed, and the stitches were removed. On the IGth the bowels were moved, and fragments of gall-stones were found in the fa3ces. She left the hospital on June 3rd, and when last seen, in July, she was quite well. Case 3G. Cholecystenterostomy for biliary fistula.—Mrs. V. B., ait. forty-four, who had chole- cystotomy performed on January 14, ]8S8 (see page 173), made an iminterrupted recovery, with the exception of having a biliary fistula, through which apparently the whole of the bile was discharged; for both the fa3ces and the urine showed no trace of biliary matter, either by inspection or on chemical examination. During the fifteen months subsequent to the operation the patient's digestion was unimpaired, unless she took too much fatty matter, and then she became sickly and lost her appetite, and rather more fat than normal was passed in the motions; the bowels were quite regular without the use of aperients, and the odour was in no wise different from that of healthy ficces.