200 INFLUENCE OF AGE. 



Dr. J. V. Shoemaker, in the P//////'/r/y >///</ ,VW>v,,/ y 

 relates the particulars of a case of gall-stones in which 

 1,940 stones were found impacted in the gall-bladder 

 after death. 



Age. The tendency to the formation of gall-ston 

 influenced considerably by age. In youth they appear 

 hut seldom: Bouisson, however, found in the gall- 

 bladder of a newly-born infant three stones ; Cruveilheir 

 :al in children during the first year of lite : Freriehs 

 in a girl of seven years, who died of waxy ation 



of the liver, spleen and kidneys eon.>e<pient on disease 

 of the hip joint. The tendency, 1. 



with the advance of life, for of 395 cases 



eolh-eted by Hein, tie only fifteen persons under 



and three under twenty. Of ninety-une 

 cases collected by \Yalu-r, we have the following : 



At 'J 



From 30 to ... l!7 



-to to 50 11 



l!) 



CO to 70 8 



o80 1'. 



1 



>f the remaining 7 are not m> 

 uluted that women a: 



gall-stones than men. Budd and Trout maintainthat they 

 are as 4 or 5 to 1 ; this, to a great extent, has been con- 



out of n''jo cases collected by 1 

 he as. P6 females and '21 



making a difference of ' The greater 



