A treatise on gall-stones : their chemistry, pathology, and treatment / by J. L. W. Thudichum.

  • Thudichum, J. L. W. (John Louis William), 1829-1901.
Date:
MDCCCLXIII. [1863]
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Credit: A treatise on gall-stones : their chemistry, pathology, and treatment / by J. L. W. Thudichum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    During my literary inquiries I found that most systematic writers were so incorrect in their statements and references, and, not rarely, so unintelligible in their accounts, that it became an essential part of my work to read or consult as many original authors as were accessible to me. The results of these labours have been corrections of numerous mis-statements propagated by compilers, as I could observe in some instances, from one to the other through the long space of two centuries. The necessity of these rectifications, together with the positive results of this search in books, appeared to me to afford some justification of the length of my first chapter. Bearing in mind that Morgagni had almost exhausted the subject of the physical description of gall-stones, I endea- voured to be as short and dogmatic upon that part as the necessity of introducing some new matter on the nature of the nuclei of some calculi permitted. The casts of the biliary ducts which I found in the centre of gall-stones, were represented on two original plates, and their apprecia- tion, by the aid of a fair description arid a short discussion, was left to the judgment of the benevolent reader. I then began that part of my work, by which I expected to furnish for my time on the field of chemistry what Mor- gagni had accomplished for his on the field of physical de- scription ; namely, a complete account of the analysis, in-