RT Journal
T1 BActeriologic relations of the bile.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD November 4
VO XXXIII
IS 19
SP 1174
OP 1175
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450710056017
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450710056017
AB Now that surgeons frequently operate on the liver and the biliary passages, it is important to know as much as possible concerning the bacteriologic relations of the bile. The most recent observations on this subject are by E. Fränkel and Krause1 of Hamburg. They examined the bile after death under suitable and, it is believed, satisfactory conditions and precautions, so that the results are entitled to be regarded as reliable. It was found to be contaminated with bacteria in 25 out of 130 cases; in 12 of the 25 cases biliary calculi were present; 4 were instances of acute infectious diseases, 4 of peritonitis, 3 had been subjected to abdominal operations, and the remaining 2 were unassociated with any special etiologic conditions. These results are in marked contrast to the results obtained by Létienne, who found that bacteria of different kinds were present in the bile in 40 per