[Nature of bile]—Biliverdine—Bile acids; glycocholic, and taurocholic acids—Cholesterine—Bile resin—Sugar—Inorganic constituents—Specific gravity, reaction, and colour of normal bile
[Manner in which bile is secreted]—Liver both a formative and excretive organ—Animals without gall-bladders—Effects of food on the colour and quantity of the bile
[Is bile essential to life?]—Effect on the system of absence of bile in the digestive process—Death from starvation as a result—Benefit derived from an additional quantity of food—Uses of bile in the animal economy—Necessary to the absorption and assimilation of food—Bile as a digestive agent—Its action on the chyme—Experiments on its influence over the absorption of fatty matter—Its relation to the pancreatic juice—Bile taken internally by Caffres
[General view of the mechanism of jaundice]—Two great divisions—Jaundice from suppression, and jaundice from re-absorption—1st subdivision: jaundice arising from enervation, disordered hepatic circulation, and absence of secreting substance—2nd subdivision: jaundice arising from congenital deficiency of the bile-ducts, and from accidental obstruction of the bile-ducts
[Mechanism of jaundice as a result of enervation]—Influence of nervous system on secretion—Effect of mental emotion on biliary secretion, as observed in dog with biliary fistula—Action of fright in paralyzing nerve force
[Mechanism of jaundice from hepatic congestion]—Active congestion—General view of the effects of congestion on glandular secretion—Reason why the biliary secretion is not usually completely arrested—The absence of pipe-clay stools explained—Example of jaundice from hepatic congestion—Jaundice from zymotic disease, and other cases of blood-poisoning, have a similar mechanism—Example of jaundice following upon ague—Effect on the urine—Analysis of the urine a clue to the nature of the case
[Passive congestion of the liver as a cause of jaundice]—Cases associated with heart disease, pneumonia, &c.—Explanation of the reason why jaundice is so frequently absent in such cases
[Mechanism of jaundice arising from suppression consequent upon absence of the secreting substance]—Cancer, tubercle, &c.—Effects of the position of the morbid deposit in modifying the result
[Jaundice arising from acute, or yellow atrophy of the liver]—State of the urine in such cases—Presence of bile-acids—Pettenkofer's test—Tyrosine and leucine in the urine—An example of the affection occurring in a young woman—Exciting cause—State of the liver tissue—Poisonous effects of glycocholate of soda injected into the circulation