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Eyes of a green or yellow colour, a flow of bile in the urine, white excrement the colour of the food that is taken: all these are counted evidence of the jaundice, engendered by infarction of the liver, scirrhus or inflammation: or else the gallbladder contains thick bile, not readily excreted, or else a stone or tumour which the bladder is unable to pass. Or the bile, in the crisis of high fevers, traverses the pores of the skin: or dire poison is drunk, like the venom discharged from the teeth of vipers. Sometimes the jaundice is black, the skin dry and dark in hue: there is fear and oppression, distress in sleep and melancholy by day: this is a black humour that is caught up in the vessels, not excepting the spleen.
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Du Port, F. (1988). The Signs and Causes of Yellow and Black Jaundice. In: Diehl, H. (eds) The Decade of Medicine or The Physician of the Rich and the Poor. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73715-2_76
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