| Description | The author offers observations of bile in the body to advance a new hypothesis for explaining the symptoms experienced by an individual who died from a wound in the gall bladder. The article detailing the case to which the author refers is 'An essay upon the use of the bile in the animal oeconomy, founded on an observation of a wound in the gall-bladder' by Alexander Stuart, published in Philosophical Transactions, vol 36, no 414, p 341.
Subject: Physiology
Read to the Royal Society on 9 March 1731. |