. Diseases of the gall-bladder and bile-ducts, including gall-stones . kicked in theabdomen, and died on the seventeenth day from laceration in the gall-bladder measures f inch (Fig. 21). In all the cases where the history is appended, the fact ofthe long survival after so serious an accident is notable, andthe lesson is manifest, that operation would in each case havegiven good hopes of success. The following successful case* of drainage of the gall-bladder, apparently thirty days after rupture, by Dr. Martinof Blackburn, is of extreme interest, and is therefore given atlength
. Diseases of the gall-bladder and bile-ducts, including gall-stones . kicked in theabdomen, and died on the seventeenth day from laceration in the gall-bladder measures f inch (Fig. 21). In all the cases where the history is appended, the fact ofthe long survival after so serious an accident is notable, andthe lesson is manifest, that operation would in each case havegiven good hopes of success. The following successful case* of drainage of the gall-bladder, apparently thirty days after rupture, by Dr. Martinof Blackburn, is of extreme interest, and is therefore given atlength : A boy, aged nine years, was admitted to the Blackburnand East Lancashire Infirmary on November 26, days before admission his abdomen had been runover by a cart weighing 15 cwt. After the injury he wascarried, or rather dragged, a quarter of a mile to his medical man who then saw him reported that he wassuffering from shock and pain in the right side of the belly,not specially confined to the liver. Next day his symptoms * Lancet, May 21, Fig. 18.(No. 2,267, St. Bartholomews Museum.)
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