[Epidemic jaundice]—Among soldiers—Among pregnant women—Among the entire civil population—Its mechanism—Its cause—Case of jaundice supervening upon scarlatina
[Artificial jaundice]—Mode of production—Experiments related—Tyrosine, and leucine supposed to be the result either of the arrested, or of the retrograde metamorphosis of glycocholic, and taurocholic acids—Biliary acids detected in the blood—Poisonous nature of the constituents of the bile—Condition of the blood in bile-poisoning
[Treatment of jaundice]—Totally different in jaundice from suppression and in jaundice from obstruction—Benefit of mercury in cases of jaundice—General theory regarding the action of mercurials—Benefit of acids, and of alkalies—Their mode of action explained—Theory of their action in cases of gall-stones—Lithia water—Treatment of jaundice by benzoic acid—Cases illustrating its mode of action—Podophyllin a bane, and an antidote in cases of jaundice—Its pernicious effects in cases of obstruction pointed out—Author's theory of its action in such cases—Method of detecting gall-stones in the stools—Sulphuric ether, and chloroform in cases of gall-stones—Taraxacum
[Difficulties in the treatment of jaundice from obstruction pointed out]—Derangements arising from absence of bile in the digestive process—Good effects of an additional quantity of food—Establishment of an artificial biliary fistula shown to be less hazardous than usually imagined—Mode of operation explained—Treatment of permanent jaundice by prepared bile—New mode of preparing bile pointed out—Theory of its action—Time of administration shown to be of much importance—Bile put into capsules—Benefits derived from bile given in this form
[Tabular view of the pathology of jaundice according to the author's views]
DESCRIPTION OF PLATES AND WOODCUTS.
[PLATE I.]
Represents the condition of the parts in a fatal case of permanent jaundice, in which both the bile, and pancreatic ducts were completely occluded.