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PHILIP B. PRICE, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1945;50(2):82-86.

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Calculus of the bladder is endemic in parts of China. Thomson¹ reported 2,949 lithotomies performed at the Canton Hospital between the years 1861 and 1919. Olpp and Kuhne,² in the same province observed 189 cases of vesical calculus in nine years. Cochran³ in Anhwei Province, in Central China, treated 227 patients with calculus of the bladder in the course of twelve years. In five years I saw about 150 patients with vesical calculus at the University Hospital in Tsinan, capital of Shantung Province; 126 of these patients admitted for treatment form the basis of this report.

Shantung is a northern coastal province. The dense population, estimated at about 38,000,000, is largely rural, wresting a subsistence from the arid soil by means of a primitive system of irrigation. Although the winters are long, the total number of hours of sunshine during the year is large.

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SALT LAKE CITY

From the Department of Surgery, University of Utah School of Medicine.

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