Excerpt from Archives of Surgery, Vol. 11 Foremost amongst the most definite indications of liver disorder we have the yellow condition of the skin, &c., known as Jaundice. Jaundlce may, however, be of many different degrees and of some quite distinct forms. It may be of a light lemon yellow tint, or of a hue approaching to brown or even to black. It may depend upon reabsorption of bile into the blood or upon its defective formation. In some of its most pronounced forms it is usually dependent upon mechanical obstruction, but at the same time it is beyond doubt that it may result from arrest of function. Some of its most definite forms are, perhaps, the infantile, the catarrhal, the xanthelasmic, and the obstructive. Second only to jaundice, and second only because some what more difficult of observation and estimation, is the condition of the feces. In many cases the feces become pale although there is no visible yellowness of skin. The feces are, however, so easily influenced as to colour by that of the ingesta, that care is necessary in order to avoid error. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.