Indications for Operation in Disease of the Biliary Tract.

1. More than one attack of true biliary colic.

2. Symtoms suggestive of upper abdominal adhesions and chronic biiary insufficiency.

3.Hydrops of the gall bladder.

4.Obstruction of the common duct.

5.The occurrence of acute infections complicating previosly existing biliary disease.

6. The evidences of parncretic disease,acute acute subacute or chronic.-J.B. Deave; New York State Journal of Medicine.

Specialization Extraordinary

A prominent physican tells this story at the expense of the modern craze for speialization in the medical profession: A poor woman from the East Slide of New York went to the nearest dispensary to ask aid for her little son,who had one of his his fingers smashed with a baseball bat. At the first room where she applied she was told by a curt attendent that the boy could not be treated there.

"Wrong place." he explained; "this is the eye and ear department."

"Vere is der thumb and finger department?" inquired the woman,simply.

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