RT Journal
A1 Coffin AB
T1 RUptures of gallbladder through abdominal wall
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD May 4
VO 92
IS 18
SP 1541
OP 1542
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700440049031
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700440049031
AB To the Editor: 
    —In The Journal, March 23, appeared the report of a case of rupture of the gallbladder through the abdominal wall, by Dr. Louis J. Gariepy of Detroit. He states that only three cases had been reported in American literature. It may be of interest to report that at a meeting in March, 1929, of the Roxbury Society for Medical Improvement (incorporated 1867) Dr. John E. Butler gave us an account of some of the early meetings of the society and took from the record the following report of a similar case, as made by Dr. P. O'Meara Edson in 1874:The patient was a male and when first seen in July, 1870, 58 years old. His chief symptoms at that time were constant vomiting and severe abdominal pain—pulse 100—tongue and skin dry. It was ascertained that fourteen years previous he had suffered from an attack of jaundice,