On the nature, cause and treatment of tuberculosis / by Horace Dobell.

  • Dobell, Horace, 1828-1917.
Date:
1866
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    diseases with which I have met, is that written by Dr. Copland, about twenty years ago, and published in his Dictionary of Practical Medicine. In this he makes some most important suggestions as to the probable existence of functional disorders of the pancreas influencing the quantity of its secretion, and thus producing serious derangements of the digestive processes. I would especially refer those who are interested in the subject to this treatise, and also to a work of Dr. T. King Chambers (Digestion, and its Derangements), published in 1856, in which the influence of the pancreas on digestion is discussed at some length. The physiology of the pancreas has long excited attention, and has led to considerable difierences of opinion. Majendie, Tiedemann, Gmelin, Lassaigne, Leuret, and others pointed out an analogy between the efiects of saliva and of pancreatic juice in the digestion of starch. The operation of the pancreas in the digestion of nitrogenous matters has been prin- cipally made known by the persevering experiments of M. Lucien Corvisart, published at various times from 1857 to 1863. But our knowledge of the important functions of this organ in preparing fats for assimila- tion, is almost entirely due to the experiments and researches of Dr. Claude Bernard, first published in the Archives Grenerales de Medecine, 1849, and followed up by him ever since. I am glad of this opportunity of