Observations on the muscularity of the hepatic and cystic ducts, as explanatory of the production of jaundice by moral causes / [Robert Knox].

  • Knox, Robert, 1791-1862.
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[1836]
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Credit: Observations on the muscularity of the hepatic and cystic ducts, as explanatory of the production of jaundice by moral causes / [Robert Knox]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a spasm of the bile ducts, and he naturally enough infers thai the bile ducts must be muscular, thus taking for granted the very fiict which it is required to prove. A hasty inference like this of necessity leads to great laxity of reasoning; it encourages young surgeons to speak vaguely about spasms of the urethra, and it is rather curious that medical pathologists of this kjnd have not bethought themselves of spasms of the ureters, about which they might write a great deal, with but little chance of being refuted. EnrNllURGIT: Printed by A>jDnE\v SnonTHUDK, Thistle Ltiiie.