Physiological Chemistry of the Bile.

Sobotka, Harry

Publication Date: 1938

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London, Baillière, Tindall & Cox, 1937, 8°, XII, 202 pp., 2 Fig., 24 Tab., orig. cloth; Stamp verso Tit. First Edition! "Were the project not a vain one, I would ask your indulgence to consider the state of our knowledge in case the biliary secretion, instead of the renal, was voided directly to the outside of the body. If, that is to say, the physicians of past times, whom we see in the Dutch pictures holding up a flask to the light, had had in that flask not urine, but bile, knowledge would have been interestingly different. There would have accumulated a huge clinical pathology of the bile. For this secretion has its suppressions and its cholureses, its cylinders and desquamations, its pathologic albumin and other strange substances as has the urine. But things are as they are; and until the specialist, with his little tubes, converts our inside into an outside, most doctors will have to be content with perceiving biliary disturbance at one or several removes. Now, how small a biliary disturbance can the clinician perceive! Circumstances alter that case very much. The liver is the most silent of organs if only a moderate fraction of its cells are in a healthy state. The ducts from more than three-fourths of it can be abruptly obstructed, without causing even a ripple on the clinical surface of things . ."-Peyton Rous. "The Biliary Aspects of Liver Disease." American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 170: 625. 1925. Harry Sobotka (1899-1965) "was born August 4,1899 in Vienna Austria. He studied Chemistry at the University of Vienna and Munich, where he obtained his Ph.D. degree under Willstaetter. After post-doctorate research with Willstaetter, and microbological studies in Copenhagen, he worked with P.A. Levene at the Rockefeller Institute from 1924-1926. The subsequent two years were spent in the Department of Bacteriology of New York University Medical College. Since 1928, he has been in charge of the Department of Chemistry of the Mt. Sinai Hospital, where he has actively participated in the development of modern clinical chemistry. In addition to numerous research papers, reviews, articles, and text book chapters in the field of clinical chemistry, enzymes, organic chemistry and colloid phenomena, he is the auth or of two books on steroids and on bile." ADLM.

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• Title: Physiological Chemistry of the Bile.
• Publication Date: 1938
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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