38 THE LIVER. 



waxen tint of skin, characteristic of organic visceral 

 disease and more particularly that hitherto considered 

 incurable complaint cancer. This, however, is easily 

 distinguished from Jaundice 



By the absence of any yellow tint of the conjunc- 

 tivae ; 



By the absence of bile-pigment from the urine; 

 and 



By the presence of marked symptoms of visceral 

 disease; and, in the case of Cancer, of the cancerous 

 cach< 



Thirdly, "NVe s > Nh 



ml< ur of the skin in persons \vli<> 

 often, from malarious fevers, and soim-times al-o in ' 

 \vhosr syst MIS have been poisoned by lead. T 

 dition is lik. -\vis' r;isjly di>t iiiLMiislird from .Ian:. 

 by tin- 



Absence of the yellow tint of the conjunct iva, 



Absence of the bil.- ti..ni th 



And tln historic fact of the pa: 



from niularinus f.-v.-rs; and of having lived in a 

 malarious district or malarious com: 



Fourtlily.- -In a large number of cases of the so- 

 called Jaundice of new-born infants, ";!< I. 

 Neonatorum," or Yellow Gum. The yellow colour \vhi.-h 

 appears on the third or fourth day after liirtli is not (as 

 many a sage monthly nurse will have it) due to 

 Jaundice at all; but is simply the result of 

 in the Mood in the over-congested skin the \ 

 redness of the new-born babe fa<: < bruises 



fade, through shades of yellow, into t: ilesh 



colour. 



