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...gall bladder is a slender, pear-shaped sac attached to the under side of the liver. Its purpose is to receive, concentrate and store the bile which the liver produces and, after a meal containing bacon, cream or other fats, to squirt some of its supply into the intestines. Typhoid fever germs occasionally slip into the gall bladder and tenaciously resist all medical efforts to dislodge them. They make a chronic typhoid carrier of the person whose gall bladder they infest...
...York State contains 700 known typhoid carriers. Few of them have "submitted to the operation for the removal of gall bladder, usually an effective procedure for ridding the system of typhoid germs. Hoping to persuade more to undergo cholecystectomy. Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., State Health Commissioner, last week announced that 91 New York typhoid carriers have had their gall bladders out during the past 15 years, and hence may live as they please, without official surveillance...
...which old Dr. Robert Koch, who discovered that germs actually cause disease and therefore that the destruction of germs would prevent disease, was quick to see. As far back as 1903, Koch warned doctors to beware typhoid carriers who show no signs of the disease, but carry in their gall bladders or intestines the germs with which others may be infected. Inoculation of such a carrier is wholly ineffective in destroying the typhoid bacillus which makes him a menace to society...
Shrewdest aspect of the Libman treatment is his attention to the gall bladder, Gall bladder troubles affect the heart through sympathetic nerves. They also lead to gout. The heart can become as gouty as the big toe and can be as thoroughly cleared of gout by adequate attention to the gall bladder...
...calomel, a saline purge, enemas of carbonate of soda, instillations of colon bacilli in the large bowel and bicarbonate of soda night and morning. The carbonate and bicarbonate of soda tend to alkalize the system; the colon bacilli prevent putrefaction and toxemia; calomel and purge clean out the gall bladder and bowels...