Note 64 — Chapter LIII · THE OMENTUM, THE MESENTERY, THE SPLEEN, THE PANCREAS.

It is but fair to add that, at the same time, Delagenière maintained that since, in his opinion, cirrhotic processes in the liver are due to intestinal infection, the treatment should consist of combating this and its possible consequences, to which end he would make a temporary cholecystostomy, having found it of benefit even in the atrophic, but mostly in the hypertrophic, forms of disease. Thus in two cases of this procedure, combined with hepatopexy, the patients survived eight and two years respectively. Nevertheless he acknowledged that the best results would probably be secured from combination of cholecystostomy, hepatopexy, and omentopexy.