ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL. ACUTE YELLOW ATROPHY OF LIVER; NECROPSY

Acute Yellow Atrophy of the Liver

of the tide than to anything else, I did so through the early days of August last. I was face to face with a patient suffering from what I feel I am quite justified in diagnosing as acute yellow atrophy of the liver. This opinion will doubtless direct my reader's attention to text-books and authorities upon this most important and enticing subject, and in conjunction with the descriptions of th...

Acute Yellow Atrophy of the Liver

Yellow Atrophy of Liver

Condition on admission.?Patient, extremely jaundiced, corneal ulcer present in both the eyes. Tongue, dry and brown ; sordes on the lips and teeth. Patient apathetic and stupid. The liver dulness extended from the sixth interspace to just half an inch below the costal arch in the right nipple line. There was slight tenderness over the hepatic and epigastric regions. The diagnosis of the case on...

A Case of Acute Yellow Atrophy of the Liver

The Chemistry of the Liver in Acute Yellow Atrophy

From the liver of a young man who died of typical, " idiopathic" acute yellow atrophy of the liver, after an illness of six weeks, there were isolated and identified the following amino acids: Histidin, lysin, tyrosin, leucin, glycocoll, alanin, prolin, glutaminic acid, aspartic acid. These were found free in extracts of the liver, and presumably represent products of the autolysis of liver cel...