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ing on the operation had principally been deposited around the liga¬ 
ture, and had established the continuity interrupted by the ligature, 
or even by the section of the duct. After the separation of the 
ligature, this lymphatic exudation became more firm and formed a 
new canal through which the bile could pass from the hepatic trunk 
of the ductus choledochus into the intestinal trunk, and thus reach 
the duodenum. In some cases the ligature was found embedded 
in the centre of the effused lymph. The ductus choledochus has 
been found to be completely re-established at the 26th day, on the 
20th, and even the 13th after the operation. In one dog the liga¬ 
ture became untied, and the bile was effused into the abdominal 
cavity. 
4. The gall-bladder and the biliary ducts were distended and 
gorged with bile. It was always of a deep yellow or brownish- 
green colour, and was mucous and adhesive. 
5. The bile was reabsorbed in the biliary passages. That which 
demonstrates this is, that we not only see the vessels of the liver 
filled with a deep yellow fluid, and the glands on which they abut 
being entirely yellow, but Ave find the principal constituents of the 
bile even in the liquid Avhich dyes Avith yelloAV the thoracic canal. 
Thus Ave find confirmed the reabsorption of bile by the lymphatic 
vessels, Avhich Peyer and Reverhorst had already observed, and 
Cruikshank, Mescagni, Soemmering, and Saunders, had reported 
as a fact. Thus also AA^e find refuted the opinion of a modern phy¬ 
siologist, Avho denied the absorption of bile by means of the lym¬ 
phatic vessels. 
6. The bile was recognized in the blood, and its colouring prin¬ 
ciple Avas found also in the urine. 
7. The serous membranes, the peritoneum, the pericardium, the 
pleura, and even the arachnoid membrane, Avere of a yelloAv colour; 
as were the cellular tissues generally, the adipose membrane, and 
even the parietes of the arteries and veins. 
8. llie state of the stomach and its contents. 
A. In those that were fasting . —One dog died of violent inflam¬ 
mation of the peritoneum seven days after the operation. The 
stomach contained a turbid aqueous fluid of a reddish-grey colour, 
and Avhich reddened very slightly the tincture of turnsol. Ano¬ 
ther died three days after the operation. His stomach contained 
an aqueous fluid, mixed Avith some mucous flocculi, and which 
strongly reddened the turnsol. The stomach of another dog, 
killed four days after the operation, presented a little colourless 
fluid, mixed Avith mucus, and Avhich also strongly reddened the 
turnsol. 
B. In dogs that had fed after the operation. —In one that had 
oaten some roast pork, the outside of the food Avas softened, and the 
