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...disease, he. would find things like this: "Whereas in cases of simple cholelithiasis cholecystostomy is the operation of choice, in cases of acute calculous cholecystitis cholecystectomy is to be preferred." In plainer English: In cases of simple gallstones, it is best to remove the stones and leave the gall bladder alone; but if a patient has an inflamed gall bladder as well as stones, it is wiser to remove both stones and bladder together...
Gallstones are common in middle-aged gall bladders, attack three or four women to every man. Some people can live comfortably with them for years, but if the stones slip into the gall-bladder ducts and cork them up, they cause excruciating pains in the pit of the stomach, the breastbone, or the right side of the back...
...gall bladder is a "pear-shaped sack . . . [which] hangs from the under surface of the liver like a droplight from a ceiling." The liver manufactures from 30 to 50 ounces of bile every day, and the overflow (up to one ounce) pours into the gall bladder. From this tank, as well as from the liver, the bile trickles into the small intestine, where it helps digest fats...
...formation of gallstones, says Dr. Benmosché, is very like the process of cooking old-fashioned rock candy. In candymaking, slender threads are dropped into syrup, and sugar crystallizes around the threads. In the formation of gallstones: 1) the juices in the gall bladder become thickened by bacterial infection; 2) delicate cells drop off the bladder walls into the cavity, combine with the thick juices to form a tiny core; 3) cholesterol (one of the solids in bile) gathers around the nucleus, hardens into a stone...
Effective September 1, 1940: Edward A. Gall, Instructor in Pathology, M.D. Tulane '31; Thomas H. Weller, Teaching Fellow in Bacteriology, M.D. '40; Kirk T. Mosley, assistant in Epidemiology, M.P.H. '40; Joseph R. Frothingham, assistant in Medicine, M.D. '37; Herbert J. Harris, assistant in Neurology, M.D. Tufts Medical School...