HAY FEVER AND ASTHMA DURING AND AFTER JAUNDICE

10 July 1937

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 109 (2) , 113-115
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1937.02780280019005

Abstract

Since the publication of the first report of a case of combined jaundice and ascites with recovery by Jones and Minot¹in 1923, the attention of the profession has been directed to the occurrence of these uncommonly associated conditions, and there have been noted and recorded from time to time similar observations by Bauer,²Weir,³Meyer and Learner,⁴McCabe and Hart,⁵Cavanagh⁶and others. Among the etiologic factors mentioned as instrumental in the causation of damage to the liver parenchyma sufficient to produce both jaundice and ascites⁷there may be mentioned arsphenamine, mercurial products, phosphorus, sodium gold thiosulfate, cinchophen, common duct stone, pressure of glands on the common duct, and infections. As a rather prominent offender, cinchophen has assumed an important rôle in the production of pathologic changes in the liver. It was discovered by Doebner and Gieseke⁸in 1887 and gained

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