“…It is well known that the so-called liver function tests are not different in liver patients with and without cerebral disturbances (Marner, 1949;Ricketts, Kirsner and Palmer, 1950;Switser, Steigmann, de la Huerga and Schaffner, 1952; Karl, Howell, Hutchinson and Cantanzaro, 1953; De Groote, I959). There is, nevertheless, someparallelism between the severity of liver dys-function and function tests on the one hand and the disturbance of liver metabolism on the otherhand.…”