[Mechanism of jaundice arising from the re-absorption of the secreted but retained bile]—Jaundice arising from a congenital deficiency of the ducts—History of a case
[Pathology of jaundice resulting from the accidental obstruction of the bile-ducts]—Mode of formation of gall-stones—Jaundice only present when the stone is lodged in common duct—How gall-stones may imperil life without inducing jaundice—Modes of escape from the gall-bladder—Presence of foreign bodies, such as cherry-stones in gall-duct—Jaundice arising from hydatids impacted in the common duct
[Mechanism of permanent jaundice from obstruction]—Resulting from organic disease—Cancer of head of pancreas—Effect of the dilatation of the bile-ducts in the liver—Effect on the nutrition of the parenchyma of liver—Different stages in size through which the liver passes—Difficulties of diagnosis—Cause often obscure—Key to its detection
[Analysis of the intestinal secretion an aid to the diagnosis of obscure cases of abdominal disease]—Colour, nature, and chemical composition of the stools—Changes produced in them by different foods, and remedies
[Examination of the renal secretion]—Diagnostic value of the colour of the urine—Colour produced by urohæmatin to be distinguished from that produced by biliverdine—Simple method of separating the pigment from the urine—Advantage of at the same time ascertaining the quantity of uric acid present—Effect of the bile pigment becoming deposited in the kidneys—Production of secondary disease
[Diagnostic value of the presence of the bile-acids in the urine]—Views of Frerichs, Städler, and Kühne—Hoppe's method of detecting the bile-acids—Frerichs's theory of the transformation of bile-acids into biliverdine shown to be untenable
[Diagnostic value of the presence of tyrosine, and leucine in the urine]—Microscopic appearances of these substances—Mode of separating them from urine—Chemical tests
[Melanine in the urine in cases of cancer of the liver]—The characters by which it is to be distinguished from bile pigment—Case related showing the value of the test
[Diagnostic value of ascertaining the quantity of urea, and uric acid, as well as the presence of sugar in the urine in obscure cases of jaundice]—History of a case illustrating the value of such knowledge—Significance of the presence of fatty acids in the fæces in the diagnosis of pancreatic disease—Pancreatine administered—Effect of bile-poisoning on the memory—Analysis of the patient's urine—Diagnostic value of the quantity of its constituents pointed out—Appearance of sugar as the forerunner of a fatal termination alluded to—Disappearance of bile-acids, and appearance of tyrosine and leucine in the latter stages of the disease—Post-mortem appearances described—Occlusion of bile, and pancreatic ducts—Analysis of healthy and diseased bile—Change in the proportion of the organic greater than in that of the inorganic constituents—Microscopic appearances of liver—Presence of crystals of cystine, as well as of tyrosine in the hepatic parenchyma
[Jaundice from obstruction in its latter stage complicated with jaundice from suppression]