Abstract
IT HAS been believed for decades that chronic alcoholism damages the hepatic parenchyma and may finally lead to cirrhosis of the liver. Available statistics show alcoholism to be an etiologic factor in hepatic cirrhosis in 33 to 87 per cent of the cases. The extent to which the damage to the liver cells caused by alcohol is demonstrable by liverfunction tests is of interest. Numerous authors, using the urobilinogen test, the blood bilirubin test, the bilirubin retention test, the bromsulfalein test, the galactose tolerance test and the cephalin-cholesterol-flocculation test found positive results in 20 to 50 per cent of uncomplicated . . .
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