Health knowledge : a thorough and concise knowledge of the prevention, causes, and treatments of disease, simplified for home use . bile-duct, and particularly if itbe angular, it sets up great spasmof the muscle fibers in the wall ofthe duct, causing the most agoniz-ing pain. This gall-stone colicis felt on the right side as indicatedby the shaded area in the accom-panying figure. It comes on, as arule, very quickly, and is accom-panied by collapse, cold sweat, andvomiting. It lasts usually severalhours, and often ceases quite sud-denly, as the stone passes into thebowel or back to the gall-b
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Health knowledge : a thorough and concise knowledge of the prevention, causes, and treatments of disease, simplified for home use . bile-duct, and particularly if itbe angular, it sets up great spasmof the muscle fibers in the wall ofthe duct, causing the most agoniz-ing pain. This gall-stone colicis felt on the right side as indicatedby the shaded area in the accom-panying figure. It comes on, as arule, very quickly, and is accom-panied by collapse, cold sweat, andvomiting. It lasts usually severalhours, and often ceases quite sud-denly, as the stone passes into thebowel or back to the gall-bladder.Next day there is usually somejaundice, which may last for a weekor two. To discover if such an at-tack has really been due to a stone, it is important, for the next twodays, to strain all the evacuations of the bowels very carefully through a fine sieve or through muslin. (3) Sometimes the stone remains jammed or impacted in oneof the ducts, passing neither up nor down. In this case, the painpasses slowly off as the muscle fibers of the ducts become tiredout, only to return again and again, till, in a milder degree, it. GALL-STONES 791 becomes almost constant. Gradually increasing jaundice comeson till the skin becomes even a dark olive brown. At the sametime loss of weight and strength, and often dropsy, progress sofar that the case may be very difficult to diagnose from cancer.In this case, too, suppuration may come on. Treatment.—To prevent gall-stones, what has been said as tocatarrh holds good, and if the accompanying catarrh be cured, even after large gall-stones have been formed, they may be com-paratively harmless. Many substances which will dissolve gall-stones outside the body have been recommended in the hope that, taken into the system for long periods, they may gradually dis-solve the stones in the gall-bladder. Such, for example, areether, turpentine, and olive-oil. When an attack of gall-stone colic occurs, hot turpentinefomentations should be at once appl