The modern treatment of diseases of the liver / by Prof. Dujardin-Beaumetz ; translated from the fifth French edition by E.P. Hurd.

Date:
1888
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Credit: The modern treatment of diseases of the liver / by Prof. Dujardin-Beaumetz ; translated from the fifth French edition by E.P. Hurd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page. •Author’s Preface v Translator’s Preface vi CHAPTER I. fhe Liver from a Therapeutic Standpoint. Summary.—General Considerations on the Liver—An- atomy of the Liver—The Hepatic Lobule—The Inter- lobular Spaces—The Physiology of the Liver—The Liver as a Glycogenic Organ—The Liver as a Producer of Urea—Accumulation of Medicinal Substances— Destruction of Alkaloids by the Liver—Difference of Action of Medicines according as Introduced by the Mouth or the Skin—Accumulation of Doses—The Liver as the Organ of the Biliary Secretion Cholesterine —Bile Pigment—The Biliary Salts—Secretion of Bile —Action of the Nervous System on this Secretion.... i CHAPTER II. Cholagogues. Su.MMARY;—Cholagogue Medicaments—Physiological Ex- periments on Cholagogues—Process of Rohrig—Pro- cess of Rutherford and Vignal—Cholagogue Purga- tives—Cholagogue Action of Calomel—New Chola- gogues of Vegetable Origin — Euonymin — Iridin—