Hunterian lectures on the pathology and surgery of certain diseases of the pancreas : delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of England on March 7th, 9th, and 11th, 1904 / by A.W. Mayo Robson.

  • Robson, Arthur William Mayo, Sir, 1853-1933.
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[1904]
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    shall see afford us certain signs in the excretions if they are absent, there is presumed to be an internal secretion, probably a ferment, secreted by the islands of Langerhans and passing into the blood. This may be termed a glycolytic ferment and when it fails, as occurs in certain inflammatory and other conditions, one of the results is glycosuria. [Mr. Mayo Kobson then recounted the nervous, vascular, and lymphatic supply of the pancreas in their bearing on the pathology of the gland, and continued :—] Fig. 5. Micro-photograph of normal pancreas showing islands of Langerhans. Symptomatology and pathology.—As our knowledge of the functions of the pancreas, both with regard to digestion and metabolism, is becoming fairly well established it would seem probable that any departure from the normal would lead to such considerable disturbance of function that the symptomatology of any of the diseases of the pancreas would be so marked as to make the diagnosis easy. But this is far from being the case for several reasons: First, it is seldom the case that the pancreas is diseased without other organs participating—e.g., the relations between cholelithiasis and pancreatitis; between gastro-intestinal