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great difference in the composition of a healthy 

 or normal bile and of the bile of one suffering 

 from cancer. 



I have shown in the chapter on Variations, 

 p. 51, that the bile contains a distinct quan- 

 tity of iron, which probably has its origin in 

 the iron set free from the haemoglobin. 



There is no doubt that iron in the above 

 analyses would be found in pigment ; and it 

 is easy to see there would be much more iron in 

 the pigment of a healthy bile than in that of a 

 cancerous bile, and it is thought that this iron 

 is set free from the haemoglobin, in which case 

 it is evident the individual having a normal 

 bile will have something much more like a 

 normal haemoglobin than the individual 

 having a cancerous bile. 



This view of the case is supported by the 

 views of medical experts on fatty degeneration 

 in cancer. 



Drs. Fagge and Pye Smith, writing on fatty 

 degeneration, say : " The reduction in the 

 amount of oxygen supplied to the tissues seems 

 to be the cause of one of the most striking of 

 the morbid appearances which are found in the 

 bodies of those who have died in a state of 



