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the blood in this case was 0*922 of a part per thousand, a lit- 

 tle above the largest proportion we had found in health. 



Like the examinations of the blood in the three cases of 

 paralysis, these pathological observations are not sufficient, 

 in themselves, to establish the function of cholesterine ; but 

 taken in connection with our other experiments, they fully 

 confirm our views with regard to the excretory function of 

 the liver. It is pretty certain that organic disease of the 

 liver, accompanied with grave symptoms generally affecting 

 the nervous system, does not differ in its pathology from 

 cases of simple jaundice in the fact of retention of the bili- 

 ary salts in the blood ; but these grave symptoms, it is more 

 than probable, are due to a deficiency in the elimination of 

 cholesterine the true excrementitious principle of the bile 

 and its consequent accumulation in the system. Like the 

 accumulation of urea in structural disease of the kidney, 

 this produces blood-poisoning ; and we have characterized 

 this condition by the name of Cholestercemia, a name ex- 

 pressing a pathological condition, but at the same time indi- 

 cating the physiological relations of cholesterine. 



