An inaugural essay on the absorption of bile : submitted to the consideration of the Honourable Robert Smith, provost, and of the regents of the University of Maryland / by Robert W. Ervin of South Carolina Charleston District member of the Baltimore Medical Society.

  • Ervin, Robert W. (Robert William), 1787-1849.
Date:
1813
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    the production of bile, by which their cutieular covering assumes a bilious cast. A tawny complexion is as common to the European inhabiting tropical regions, as the black colour is to the natives of Africa. These phenomena in co- lours, most probably, can be accounted for by considering the combined influence of heat and light, on the reflecting surface of the body, destroying the transparency of the rete mucosum. In concluding this Essay, I feel myself impressed with sentiments of respect and the greatest esteem for the superior excellence of the Professors in the Univer- sity of Maryland; hoping for their prosperity as citizens, encouraging and improving a science whose usefulness can only be estimated by considering its universal bene fits offered to mankind.