Jaundice: its pathology and treatment : with the application of physiological chemistry to the detection and treatment of diseases of the liver and pancreas. / By George Harley.

  • Harley, George, 1829-1896.
Date:
MDCCCLXIII. [1863]
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Credit: Jaundice: its pathology and treatment : with the application of physiological chemistry to the detection and treatment of diseases of the liver and pancreas. / By George Harley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    As the object of all theory, and the aim of all science, is to insure wise practice, the author desires to call special attention to that portion of the work devoted to the chemistry of the excre- tions, feeling, as he does, that we are entering upon the threshold of an important department of medical inquiry, which, sooner or later, will be followed by valuable practical results. He would also direct the special attention of his readers to the chapter devoted to treatment, being sanguine enough to imagine that the adoption of the principles he has enunciated regarding the mode of action, and administration of the remedies usually employed in hepatic affections, may con- duce to a more rational and successful method of treatment than has hitherto been employed. He even goes far enough to hope that the result of the treatment, as shown in the cases cited, will not only justify the adoption of the principles on which it is founded, but also prove a strong incen- tive to others to follow the line of diagnosis he has striven to inculcate. In some portions of the volume the statements