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While the recognition of gallstones as an abnormality within the human body dates back at least to the fifth century, the treatment of symptomatic gallstone disease remained primitive and ineffective until the eighteenth century. Thudichum proposed a two-stage elective cholecystostomy. Dr. John Stough Bobbs performed the first cholecystotomy. J. Marion Sims must be credited with designing, perfecting, and performing the first cholecystostomy. Later in the nineteenth century Kehr and Langenbuch would usher in the era of open cholecystectomy.
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Berci, G., Greene, F.L. (2021). The History of Biliary Stone Disease. In: No Stones Left Unturned. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76845-4_1
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