Experiments & observations on the bile / By Jarvis Roebuck.

  • Roebuck, Jarvis.
Date:
1801
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Credit: Experiments & observations on the bile / By Jarvis Roebuck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but in a more unequivocal manner by the aid of chemical tefts. Two experiments were performed on dogs, but as my intention was to preferve them feveral days after the ope¬ ration, in order to eifeft more completely what I had in view ; fome accident or other generally occurred which entirely defeated my defigns. The following experiment, however, may not be entirely unworthy of notice. The great hardinefs of hogs was an inducement, for me to try the above mention¬ ed experiment on one of this kind. For this purpofe, a pig being obtained, ligatures were made on the cyftic and common du6ls, on the 5th of April; the gall bladder was well dif- tended with bile; the flow of it into the dufitus choledichus was prevented by the ligature nearly at the mouth of the cyfl. He continued very well until the 22d of April, when, by an unfortunate accident, he was killed. On examination, the wound in his abdomen had entirely healed. On open- ing, the inteftines were firmly aglutinated to the peritoneum ; the parts being carefully feparated, the liver appeared of a colour nearly natural, and the gall-bladder, which, when tied up, contained a confiderable quan¬ tity of bile, appeared now to be filled with a