Jaundice from non-elimination, together with remarks on the pathological condition and chemical nature of the bile / [William Henry Lowe].

  • Lowe, William Henry, 1814 or 1815?-1900.
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[1841]
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    FROM NON-ELIMINATION, TOGETHER WITH REMARKS ON THE PATHOLO¬ GICAL CONDITION AND CHEMICAL NATURE OE THE BILE. By W. H. Lowe, M. D., M. R. C. S., London, Late President of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh* ♦ {From the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, No. 147.J During the time I was resident in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, my attention was chiefly directed to a subject, which of late years has attracted some attention as an object of patho¬ logical inquiry. The disease to which I allude is Jaundice from Non-Elimination. But in entering on the consideration of this subject, it will be necessary briefly to advert to some other forms of jaundice, arising from causes more demonstrable, and better ascertained. The sudden appearance of jaundice, arising without premoni¬ tory symptoms, or supervening on some other and long-con¬ tinued disease, was usually referred to a doctrine prevalent some years ago, and even supported by some in the present day, viz. spasm, or the very opposite condition, paralysis of the gall-ducts. This theory is so purely hypothetical, and so little supported by direct evidence, that I am constrained to regard it as a mere loop-hole, of which the older physiologists were accus¬ tomed to avail themselves, and to which they were driven by the erroneous idea that the liver was the sole agent employed in the A