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Experimental researches into a new excretory function of the liver, consisting in the removal of cholesterine from the blood and its discharge from the body in the form of stercorine.

Amer. J. med. Sci., n.s. 44, 305-65. 1862.

Discovery, in the feces, of “stercorine” (coprosterol).

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