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4. In close alliance with Jaundice from mental 

 emotion, we sometimes find that an icteroidal tint of 

 the skin will follow the administration of ether and 

 chloroform. It is also worthy of note that in such 

 cases sugar has been observed to pass off by the urine. 



o. It is recorded that Jaundice of a very sudden 

 and severe form may follow the bite of venomous rep- 

 tiles : this was observed by Galen, as far back as A.D. 

 liOO, who records the case of a slave who became in- 

 ly jaundiced from the bite of a viper; this was 

 confirmed by Dr. Mead, an eminent English physician, 

 who flourished in the early part of the seventeenth cen- 

 tury. Itesults similar to those supervening upon the bite 

 of a viper have been observed after the bites of rattle- 

 snakes, as recorded by Moseley ; and of scorpions and 

 m.id animals, as recorded by Bartholin and others. 

 The ancient physicians attributed the cause of this 

 ot> - JlllllJ < spasm of the Lilt-ducts; or, as 



ma, in 1780, did, to a liquefaction of the bile, 

 liling from putrid decomposition. 

 It i.s more than probable, however, that the sudden 

 shock (fright) given to the nervous system, producing, 

 us in . I au n. lice from mental emotions, spasm and occlu- 

 sion of the biliary ducts, was the chief cause of that 

 of Jaundice observed by those illustrious phvsi- 

 of another age, consequently Cham., /////., Niix 

 :U1 '1 l"'i'h;i( "', would prove the most 



appropriate remedies. 



1 ; iking feature in these forms of Jaundice 



that no perceptible obstruction to the flow of bile exists ; 



I by the bilious character of the evacua- 



, both by vomiting and by stool It is also worthy 



