. On diseases of the liver. racters of these objects. In the spring of 1844 I met with a case in which, from lono-closure of the common duct, the cells of the liver were perhapseven more completely destroyed than in the case related by I shall give the case in detail, because from there beingno disease elsewhere to render the result ambiguous, it shows,clearer than any of the experiments made on animals, the effect ofclosure of the common duct. Case.—Ann Piprose, aged sixty-three, a sempstress, was admitted intoKings College Hospital on the 18th of May, 1843. She was born inLondon
. On diseases of the liver. racters of these objects. In the spring of 1844 I met with a case in which, from lono-closure of the common duct, the cells of the liver were perhapseven more completely destroyed than in the case related by I shall give the case in detail, because from there beingno disease elsewhere to render the result ambiguous, it shows,clearer than any of the experiments made on animals, the effect ofclosure of the common duct. Case.—Ann Piprose, aged sixty-three, a sempstress, was admitted intoKings College Hospital on the 18th of May, 1843. She was born inLondon, and had passed her life in it; of temperate habits, never takingspirits; married; had had six children, and five miscarriages; the cata-menia appeared at the age of seventeen, were regular, except when inter-rupted by pregnancy and suckling, and ceased at the age of thirty-eight. Enjoyed good health till about fifteen years ago, when, after a fire whichdestroyed much of her husbands property, she was seized with violent. M«* 228 CLOSURE OF THE COMMON DUCT. pains, extending- from the feet to the thighs, which continued for sometime. A year after this the muscles on the right side of the face werespasmodically contracted for six weeks. About eleven years ago she felldown suddenly in the street, with loss of sensation and motion, from whichshe perfectly recovered in six weeks. She had no further illness till fiveyears ago, when she suffered from pain and swelling in the right iliacregion, attended with constipation. The pain gradually became verysevere. It yielded to leeches, blisters, and low diet, after continuing fromthree weeks to a month. She perfectly recovered from this attack, andher health was good till her present illness, which began seven monthsago, after great fatigue and anxiety in attending her mother, who wasthen, in her 91st year, operated on successfully for strangulated hernia. At this time her face and body became gradually of a deep yellow color,which, wi
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