Acute Yellow Atrophy

Acute Yellow Atrophy of the Liver

of the tide than to anything else, I did so through the early days of August last. I was face to face with a patient suffering from what I feel I am quite justified in diagnosing as acute yellow atrophy of the liver. This opinion will doubtless direct my reader's attention to text-books and authorities upon this most important and enticing subject, and in conjunction with the descriptions of th...

Acute Yellow Atrophy of the Liver

A Case of Acute Yellow Atrophy

The; patient, a widow aged 55 years, entered the hospital with a chronic inflammatory mass ?f many years' standing and a fonl smelling leukorrhcea. She had been treated elsewhere Wlth Snlfarsenol for syphilis and we discovered a slightly positive Wassermann reaction. Cervical smear was positive for gonococci. Hysterectomy with removal of adnexa was advised, but at operation, on separation of co...

A Case of Acute Yellow Atrophy of the Liver

The Chemistry of the Liver in Acute Yellow Atrophy

From the liver of a young man who died of typical, " idiopathic" acute yellow atrophy of the liver, after an illness of six weeks, there were isolated and identified the following amino acids: Histidin, lysin, tyrosin, leucin, glycocoll, alanin, prolin, glutaminic acid, aspartic acid. These were found free in extracts of the liver, and presumably represent products of the autolysis of liver cel...