202 DIATHESIS. 



lead indolent lives, than those who lead an active life 

 and live sparingly. 



DIATHESIS. Differences of opinion exist as to 

 whether there is any peculiar idiosyncrasy of consti- 

 tution necessary for the development of gall-stones. 

 Frerichs says : " No calculous diathesis, arising from 

 abnormal states of the metamorphosis of matter, such 

 as lead to the formation of urinary calculi, can be 

 discovered in the case of gall-stones. They are met 

 with in the most different constitutions, and are D 

 dependent upon local than upon general derange me; 

 Jiudd says, " there can be no doubt that a liability to 

 gall-stones often depends on peculiarity of CM 

 tut ion, which, like the tendency to gout, or gravel, 

 may b<- inherited as well as acquired." At present little 

 i-; known of the characters, or of the other effects, of 

 this diathesis. It, however, most probably lea-: 



ition if the coats nf the ^all-bladder, which 

 is so often associated with gall stones; and, 

 also to fatty de^ , so common 



in advanced life. 1'ioiit noti* v to the, 



Ion nation of gall-stones of cholesterine is frequently 

 allied with a tendency to lr : deposits in the 



urine, and it is more than ] a London 



and other large towns the habit of drinking h< 

 malt liquor, which frequently leads to lithic- 



he most of gout and 



rheumatism, in persons who inherit no disposition to 

 them, may also frequently lead to the formation of 

 ^all-stones. 



"SITUATION OF (IAI.L-STONKS, AND TI; 

 LOGICAL COXSEQI I -(Jail-stones are formed and 



