TY  - JOUR
T1  - RUptures of gallbladder through abdominal wall
AU  - Coffin AB
Y1  - 1929/05/04
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1929.02700440049031
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1541
EP  - 1542
VL  - 92
IS  - 18
N2  - 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,
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1929.02700440049031
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700440049031
ER  -