Goodisson, William: A historical and topographical essay upon the islands of Corfu, Leucadia, Cephalonia, Ithaka and Zante: with remarks upon the character manners and customs of the Ionian Greeks : descriptions of the scenery and remains of antiquity discovered therein, and reflections upon the Cyclopian ruins, illustrated by maps and sketches (London: Thomas and George Underwood, 1822)

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redundancy of bile in most cases, it must be looked
upon merely as an accidental symptom, and can-
not rank as a cause of the disease in any shape.
I have seen three cases of jaundice occurring, whilst
the remittent fever was at its height, in none of
which was exhibited a symptom of the fever, and
I have opened bodies where a deficiency of bile was
found, the patients having died of the symptoms of
remittent fever.
In observations post mortem the most striking
phenomenon is the great redundancy of bile, which
is generally found to distend the gall bladder, and
to be extravasated into the duodenum, together with
turgescence of the liver. Notwithstanding the gene-
rality of this occurrence, I have opened bodies that
died of remittent fever, of a bad type, wherein a defi-
ciency of bile was the most remarkable phenomenon,
with extenuation of the gall bladder and collapse of
the liver : in one case not a particle of bile could be
found throughout the whole biliary system.
The next most remarkable appearance on dis-
section in fever, and in fact in all diseases termi-
nating fatally here, is a contraction of the colon :
in nearly one hundred cases of dissection, most of
which I have performed myself, and have been
present, a spectator of the remainder, have I wit-
nessed this diseased structure in the greater num-
ber. This is an observation which can escape no
one who is in the habit of inspecting bodies after
death in these islands. Whether this alteration of
structure arise from the astringent quality of the wines