JAUNDICE:

ITS

PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT.

WITH THE

APPLICATION OF PHYSIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

TO THE DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF

DISEASES OF THE LIVER AND PANCREAS.

GEORGE HARLEY, M.D.,

Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in University College, London;Assistant Physician to University College Hospital; Formerly Presidentof the Parisian Medical Society; Cor. Memb. of the Academy of Sciencesof Bavaria, and of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Madrid.

So rapid is the advance of science, that the theory regarded as trueto-day, may be recognised as false to-morrow. The facts, however, onwhich the theory is based, if rightly observed, remain unaltered, andunalterable.

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TO

WILLIAM SHARPEY, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S.,
Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in University College, London,

AS

A SMALL TOKEN OF A COLLEAGUE'S ESTEEM

FOR

A PROFOUND THINKER, A SOUND REASONER,

AND

A TRUE FRIEND.

PREFACE.

"Time being money," quite as much to the professional as it is to themercantile man, the author has endeavoured in the accompanyingmonograph not only to condense his material, but to exclude theconsideration of any question not directly bearing upon the pathologyor treatment of jaundice; indeed, as stated in the Introduction, one ofthe chief objects of the author having been to point out how valuablean adjunct modern physiological, and chemical knowledge is in thediagnosis, and treatment of hepatic and pancreatic disease, he hasneither dwelt on the literature nor discussed the old theories of themechanism of jaundice, but limited himself almost entirely to a briefexposition of his own views. For the sake of brevity, he has at page132 put into a tabular form the pathology of jaundice, according to theopinions expressed in the body of the volume.

As the object of all theory, and the aim of all science, is to insurewise practice, the author desires to call special attention to thatportion of the work devoted to the chemistry of the excretions,feeling, as he does, that we are entering upon

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