Surgical observations on the constitutional origin and treatment of local diseases; and on aneurisms. Including directions for the treatment of disorders of the digestive organs / John Abernethy.

  • Abernethy, John, 1764-1831.
Date:
1829
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Credit: Surgical observations on the constitutional origin and treatment of local diseases; and on aneurisms. Including directions for the treatment of disorders of the digestive organs / John Abernethy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    blackish brown, all which show a vitiated state of the biliary secretion. Any kind of brown, which dilution will not convert into yellow, I should consider as unhealthy, since the colour of healthy bile is a bright yellow, which by concen- _ tration appears brown. Such are the circumstances which I have collected from my own observation, and the reports of others, relative to the alvine excretions, in the disorders which have been described. I have dwelt thus particularly upon the subject of the biliary secretion, from a belief that its quantity and quality can, in gene- ral, be ascertained by inspection, and will therefore serve to indicate the presence of disorder. Whether the foregoing opinions be correct or not, it will, I think, be gene- rally granted, that the excretions from the bowels commonly indicate the healthy or ‘disordered state of the digestive organs. By the state of the faeces we may judge how