242 OF THE BILE. 



(B) Berzelius * states, that bile contains alkali and salts in 

 the same proportion as the blood, and that no resin exists in it, 

 but " a peculiar matter, of a bitter and afterwards somewhat 

 sweet taste, which possesses characters in common with the 

 fibrin, the colouring matter, and the albumen of the blood." 

 This forms, with an excess of acid, a perfectly resinous precipi- 

 tate. What has been considered albumen in the bile, Ber- 

 zelius regards as the mucus of the gall-bladder. 

 Bile contains of 



Water 907-4 



Biliary matter 80.0 



Mucus of the gall bladder dissolved \ » 



in the bile J 



Alkalies and salts common to all 1 _ _ 



secreted fluids / 



1000.0 f 



(C) During the precipitation of the chyle and the decom- 

 position of the bile, a gaseous product is usually evolved, the 

 iass becomes neutral, and traces of an albuminous principle 

 nmence, strongest at a certain distance from the pylorus, — 

 v the point at which the bile enters the intestine, and 

 Jly fainter in each direction. On mixing bile with chyme 

 mixtuT ^°^y> a distinct precipitation takes place, and the 

 pr j nc j i comes neutral ; but the formation of an albuminous 

 fluid t ^ ou btful, probably from the want of the pancreatic 



It is worn, 

 feces and a ^ that ' m J aundice > wnen no b3e is seen in tne 

 of the choled ^ to ^ r ' ^ , ° rd y ce even in artificial obstruction 

 health are said to by li ^ ature ' nut "tion continues. Life and 

 to be considered — l?™ 6 after the removal of the or S an next 

 sating resources of n* pleen * We know Uttle of the com P en - 



* .tnimal Chemistry. j>.^65. 

 t Med. Chirurg. Trans; Vol i 



t Dr. Prout in Thomson'. ^ JM j >241 



*** r Philosophy. 1819. 



