During a HIDA Scan a scanner monitors the radioisotope that was initially injected. When (CCK) cholecystokinin, a hormone that's normally released by the body after a meal, is injected, the contraction of the gallbladder is identified on the scan. Reduced contraction (which often produces pain) may mean anything from actual gallbladder disease/dysfunction, to inflammation or scarring.
United States History. Andrew J. Volstead, Republican representative from Minnesota, was the driving force behind the National Prohibition Act (popularly the Volstead Act), written to provide for the enforcement of the recently ratified 18th Amendment. It was passed by Congress in October, 1919, but was vetoed by President Wilson on October 27.
There were women such as Carry Nation, who was one of the famous female prohibitionists at that time. She got quite famous for clutching a hatchet and breaking into saloons and bars to attack any forms of alcohol she could find; bottles, kegs, glasses etc. People began to follow her lead and use violence to make the lawmakers pass a law against alcohol.