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CHAPTEK IV. 



JAUNDICE. 



NVMOUSLY. Jaundice is recognized and known as 

 the Icterus of Pliny the elder and Caelius Aurelianus 

 the Morbus Regius of Celsus and Pliny the younger 

 the Morbus Arcuatus of ColumeUa the Aurigo of 

 riautus and Varro the Cachexia Icterica of Hoffmann 

 the Icterus of Boerhaave and Linnieus the Chole- 

 lithia Icterus of Young and the Fellis sufi'usio vel 



ructio of Cullen. 



N A i 1. -N ALLY. The Jaunisse Ictere of the French ; the 

 < relbsucht of the Germans ; and the Iterizia Citri- 

 nezza of the Italians. 



HISTORICALLY. Jaundice was well known and clearly 

 defined at a very early period of the world's history, as 

 the works of Hippocrates, Caelius Aurelianus, " the great 

 African physician," who flourished in the second cen- 

 tury B.C., Galen, Celsus, and many more, teem with 

 scattered allusions to Jaundice as a complication of 

 r disorders. Hippocrates, in describing the symp- 

 toms of the autumnal remittent fever of ancient Greece 

 see Book I. on Epidemics says, " Some were 

 with Jaundice on the sixth day, but these 

 :tlier by a urinary purgation, or a dis- 

 T of the bowels, or a copious haemorrhage, as in the 

 case .f ii hu was lodged with Aristocydes." 



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