On the Bile, Jaundice and Bilious Diseases (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from On the Bile, Jaundice and Bilious Diseases

The following pages are devoted to that Office Of the liver which, for two hundred years, was the only one allowed by physiologists; that is, the secretion of bile. The early chapters treat Of the chemistry and physio logy Of this humour. The first Of these may be thought to be in a tolerably satisfactory state, since so much light was thrown upon the chemistry of the bile acids by the labours Of Adolf Strecker thirty years ago. The physiology of the bile is still surrounded by a darkness almost Egyptian; and it may surprise many to find how little knowledge there is of a humour which has been carefully studied for over two thousand years, and which already filled a great place in the physiology of the Timwus. Much Of this Obscurity is doubtless due to the place which physiology holds among the sciences; little progress can be made till the others beneath have well nigh reached perfection.

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