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INFECTIVE HEPATITIS
Author(s) -
M. W. WILLIAMS
Publication year - 1953
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1953.tb85053.x
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , library science , information retrieval
. Object.?This investigation on infective |}epatitis was carried out with the object of Ending out the biochemical changes occurring in blood, faeces, urine, etc., and to obtain any data ^'hich may be of significant value. In the following account the disease has been j^vided into three stages, the acute or pre-icteric, tlle progressive or icteric, and the recovery or Post-icteric stages. Such division is purely arbitrary, as each stage merges imperceptibly ^o the next; and in certain cases the chief characteristic symptom, jaundice, was absent altogether. Nevertheless the classification is ^structive, particularly in considering the Various biochemical changes that occur through?ut the course of the disease. Part I?Biochemical