The Liver (eBook)

Front Cover 1
The Liver: Porta Malorum (The Gateway to Disease) 2
Table of Contents 4
INTRODUCTION 6
THE LIVER 10
CHAPTER 1. VASA PRIVATA AND VASA PUBLICA 10
CHAPTER 2. PHYSIOLOGY OF THE EXTRAHEPATIC BILE-DUCTS 20
CHAPTER 3. A CRITIQUE OF CURRENT EXPERIMENTAL METHODS FOR THE STUDY OF THE FUNCTION OF BILE-DUCTS 35
1. GALL-BLADDER FISTULA 35
2. COMMON BILE-DUCT FISTULA 37
3. DUODENAL FISTULA AND TUBING 38
4. FISTULA OF THE COMMON BILE-DUCT 40
5. CHOLECYSTOGRAPHY 41
CHAPTER 4. PATHOLOGY 50
SO-CALLED RECURRENT CHOLECYSTITIS 70
INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION BY BILE-STONES 71
THERAPY 72
CHAPTER 5. PORTAL HYPERTENSION 76
CHAPTER 6. JAUNDICE AS A SIGN OF PORTAL HYPERTENSION 97
MECHANICAL OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE 97
CATARRHAL JAUNDICE OR ACUTE HEPATITIS 101
ICTERUS GRAVIS 104
CONGENITAL HÆMOLYTIC JAUNDICE 106
CHOLÆMIA AND JAUNDICE 109
JAUNDICE IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES OR PARENCHYMATOUS JAUNDICE 111
ICTERUS NEONATORUM 112
ICTERUS GRAVIDARUM 113
CARDIAC JAUNDICE 113
BAUMGARTEN'S DISEASE 113
CHAPTER 7. RELATION OF THE 'VICIOUS CIRCLE' POST-GASTRO- ENTEROSTOMY TO THE JEJUNAL PEPTIC ULCER 115
THE AETIOLOGY OF INTESTINAL ULCERS 132
CHAPTER 8. APPENDICITIS 143
CHAPTER 9. PANCREATITIS 148
CHAPTER 10. AETIOLOGY OF BRIGHT'S DISEASE 154
CHAPTER 11. ANGINA PECTORIS 162
CHAPTER 12. BRONCHIAL ASTHMA AND TOXIC GOITRE 171
CHAPTER 13. PORTAL HYPERTENSION AND THE TOXAEMIC SYNDROME OF PREGNANCY 177
HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM 183
CHAPTER 14. HÆMORRHOIDS 193
AETIOLOGY OF HÆMORRHOIDS 194
EXTERNAL PILES 196
CONSTIPATION 213
CHAPTER 15. SPONTANEOUS THROMBOSES IN THE RECTAL VEINS 216
LOCAL AND GENERAL PRURITUS 216
CHAPTER 16. PEMPROCTITIS AND FISTULA-IN-ANO 235
CHAPTER 17. ANO-RECTAL MUCOSAL PROLAPSE AND VARICOSE VEINS OF THE LEG 255
VARICOSE VEINS OF THE LEG 257
BIBLIOGRAPHY 261
INDEX 270