“…COMMENT I have been unable to trace a necropsy-proved case of non-obstructive acute suppurative cholangitis, save in the presence of artificial regurgitation of chyme, as a postoperative phenomenon-for example, in cholecystgastrostomy (Zaslow and Counseller, 1946;Cole, 1947). A single case was described by Bassler (1937) in which no obstruction was discovered during laparotomy with exploration of the bile duct: this patient recovered.…”