Experiments & observations on the bile / By Jarvis Roebuck.

  • Roebuck, Jarvis.
Date:
1801
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Credit: Experiments & observations on the bile / By Jarvis Roebuck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i bile was loft. The vein and integuments be¬ ing properly fecured, the dog was let loofe. A few hours after he appeared very dull, would not quit the place in which he lay ; and refufed the meat that was offered him. This continued for two or three days : he then gradually recovered his appetite, and is now perfeftly well. Thus we have proved the ftimulus of the bile in the blood veffels, not to be neceffa- rily attended with fatality: and as the compa¬ rative experiments between the inflammatory and jaundiced ferum, indicate fomething in the latter, which in the refult with the acids, does not in the leaft differ from that of heal¬ thy ferum with the addition of bile : I will venture, unfalhionable as it may appear, to afcribe to abforption, what modern theorifts might attribute to fympathy: In embracing an antiquated do£trine, I am fanftioned by experiment. This furely ought not to be de- ferted for the deceptive fldlhings of a difeafed imagination. J l. y / C 42 ] FINIS.