Chologen Treatment for Cholelithiasis

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sib,?In this country where surgical operations are unpopular and often fraught with great danger it is most useful to have in hand medicinal measures for the treatment of what is usually a surgical case. A Russian physician recommended to me the " Chologen treatment" for cholelithiasis. This treatment is carried out in Germany very frequently. I have tried it in two cases with excellent results, and I know of a third case in which the result was quite as good. On inquiry from many doctors I have not found that it is at all well known to the profession out here, or indeed in England. A pamphlet " Recent Medical Experiences with Chologen in the Treatment of Cholelithiasis " gives a very exhaustive description of the treatment, with notes on cases treated by such well-known physicians as Dr. Robert Glaser of Muri, Aargau, Switzerland, and Professor Loewy of Berlin. The agents for Chologen