60 THE LIVER. 



Forestus ; the Icterus viridis, melas Icterus, vel melan- 

 cholus of Fennel and Var. Auct. ; the Icterus inehena of 

 Good; and the green or black Jaundice of Baillie. 

 Pathologically, however, this is merely the extreme 

 -rude of the disease in its milder and more tractable 

 form. 



Hidi>r'n-itlhf. Aretaeus, the Cappadocian, and sup- 

 posed contemporary of Galen, A. n. 200, was the first to 

 give us a description of this form of Jaundice. In his 

 work on chronic diseases, article Icterus, he says : 

 " It is superfluous in me to tell you whence the name 

 is derived, further than that it is derived from certain 

 i'our-l'uoted and terrestrial animals called (cri&c*(ictides) 

 whose eyes are of this colour." 



He then goes on to s iv : " There are two species of 

 this attectiou, for the colour of the. whitish-given species 

 cither turns to yellow and saffron, or to livid and blaek ; 

 and the cause of these is the same as the cause of 

 the two kiuds of bile. In cases therefore, of black 

 us, the patients are of a dark-green colour; are 

 suhj. >rs, beeomeiaintish, inactive, and .spiritless ; 



emit a 1'o-tid smell, ha\> r taste, breathe with 



diiliculty, are pinched in the 1 ;lvine evacuations 



like led, ash, dry, passed witli difficulty; nrine 



deeply tinged \\ith black ; without digestion, without 

 appetite; restless, spiritless, and melancholic. It is 

 more familar to adolescents." 



Since the era of Aret^us, no very important contribu- 

 tions have been given on this subject, till down tothe time 

 of the late Dr. Baillie, who contributed an able article 



* A species of ferret ; either the Mustela Erminea, or the Mustek Puro. 



