A treatise on the structure, economy, and diseases of the liver;together with an inquiry into the properties and component parts of the bile and biliary concretions. By William Saunders / [William Saunders].

  • William Saunders
Date:
1797
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Credit: A treatise on the structure, economy, and diseases of the liver;together with an inquiry into the properties and component parts of the bile and biliary concretions. By William Saunders / [William Saunders]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Le] ~of the liver. along its longitudinal and is continued to the umbilicus. . Hence in the living fabje the. fituation of the liver muft vary with refpec& to the general cavity, according as the dia- phragm defcends or afcends, in the acts of infpiration or expiration. pagh 12. Tue fituation of the ftomach with refpect to this organ is fuch, that the right portion of the former ts frequently covered by the left lobe of the latter, and, fromthe bilious tinge frequently found on the ex- ternal furface of the duodenum near the | pylorus, it appears ‘that the gall-bladder ufually refts on this part. 13. ‘Tue ‘gall bladder is a bag fome- what pyriform in its fhape, its neck or {mall extremity being fituated fuperiorly, and its fundus, or large extremity, infe- -riorly., It is lodged in a depreffion on the concave furface of the right lobe of the liver, to which it is attached by a continu- ation of the peritoneal coat of that vifcus
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