. Diseases of the gall-bladder and bile-ducts, including gall-stones . Fig. 16.—Cancer of Gall-bladderulcerating into colon. (No. 2,8o9A, Royal College of SurgeonsMuseum.). Fig. 17.—Stricture ofCommon Bile-duct. (No. 2,804, Royal Collegeof Surgeons Museum.) and the only cases concerning which we can glean informa-tion have followed on cholelithiasis, or new growth. Stricture may only render itself evident after the originalcause has passed away, as in three cases of stricture of thecystic duct and one of the common duct, where the cause inthe shape of gall-stones was removed, and the stricture
. Diseases of the gall-bladder and bile-ducts, including gall-stones . Fig. 16.—Cancer of Gall-bladderulcerating into colon. (No. 2,8o9A, Royal College of SurgeonsMuseum.). Fig. 17.—Stricture ofCommon Bile-duct. (No. 2,804, Royal Collegeof Surgeons Museum.) and the only cases concerning which we can glean informa-tion have followed on cholelithiasis, or new growth. Stricture may only render itself evident after the originalcause has passed away, as in three cases of stricture of thecystic duct and one of the common duct, where the cause inthe shape of gall-stones was removed, and the strictures 66 DISEASES OF THE GALL-BLADDER AND BILE-DUCTS which developed had subsequently to be treated ; and inanother case of stricture of the common duct, where thehistory of gall-stones was indubitable, though none werefound when the abdomen was explored. (Cases 55, 121, 195,and Case 123.) Notwithstanding the probable frequency of its occurrence,a search through the museum revealed only a single specimenillustrating simple stricture of the bile-ducts, that is in theHunterian Museum (No. 2,8o4A), and shows a long strictureof the common duct; but there are many specimen
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