The Southern California practitioner . tula has been established, a,silver tube to which a bladder has been attached; b, bladder; c, stop-cock for the pur-pose of collecting the juice which accumulates in the bladder. The author then enters upon a thorough exposition of theproperties and composition of the pancreatic secretion. ACTION OF THE BILE IN DIGESTION. The question whether the bile be a purely excrementitiousfluid or one concerned in digestion was formerly the subjectof much discussion; but it is now admitted by all physiolo-gists that the action of the bile in digestion and absorption
The Southern California practitioner . tula has been established, a,silver tube to which a bladder has been attached; b, bladder; c, stop-cock for the pur-pose of collecting the juice which accumulates in the bladder. The author then enters upon a thorough exposition of theproperties and composition of the pancreatic secretion. ACTION OF THE BILE IN DIGESTION. The question whether the bile be a purely excrementitiousfluid or one concerned in digestion was formerly the subjectof much discussion; but it is now admitted by all physiolo-gists that the action of the bile in digestion and absorption,whatever the office of the bile maj^ be as an excretion, is es-sential to life. The experiments of Swann, Nasse, Bidder andSchmidt, Bernard and others, who have discharged all the bileby a fistula into the gall-bladder, communication between thebile-duct and the duodenum having been cut off, show thatdogs operated on in this way have a voracious appetite butdie of inanition after having lost four-tenths of the body- 484 Book pyright, 18S8, by D. Appleton & Cc Dog with a biliary a rough sketeh made the fourteenth day after the operation. A small glass vessel istied around the body to collect the bile, and a wire muzzle, the lower part of which iscovered with oil-silk, is placed over the mouth to prevent the animal from licking thebile. The dog is considerably emaciated. weight. The following is an example of experiments of thiskind (Flint, 1861): A fistula was made into the gall-bladderof a dog, after excising nearly the whole of the common bile-duct. The animal suffered no immediate effects from the op-eration, but died at the end of thirty-eight days, having lostZlh per cent in weight. He had a voracious appetite, was fedas much as he would eat, was protected from cold and wascarefully prevented from licking the bile. During the prog-ress of the experiment various observations were made on theflow of bile. During the last five or six days the animal was
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