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To the Editor:— Under this title an article by Dr. Howard Curl appeared in the June 20 issue ofThe Journal. Since cholecystography is widely employed and since the program recommended by the author may cause much unhappiness to patients with biliary disease (namely a week or two on high fat diet preceding roentgen examination) it seems advisable to point out certain discrepancies in his remarks. He states that 28 per cent of gallbladders in a group of healthy young medical students failed to concentrate iodophthalein. This extraordinarily high figure suggests some error in technic. It is noteworthy that this group was the first one examined, and therefore technical difficulties or misunderstandings may have been greater than in the subsequent tests (which were made on the same group). Further, the author states that colonic cleansing was never used. It is well known that a fecal laden transverse colon may readily
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