Observations on the diseases of the liver, and on the effects of mercury in their treatment : with some account of the scrofulo-schirrus, or, consumption of the liver / by Thomas Mills.

Mills, Thomas

Date:: 1811

Credit: Observations on the diseases of the liver, and on the effects of mercury in their treatment : with some account of the scrofulo-schirrus, or, consumption of the liver / by Thomas Mills. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$is closely connected \Vith the diaphi-agm> filling up the whole of the right hypochondriac) and part of the epigastric region; it i$ divided into three lobes, t,he right, left and central, or.* ivery Jarge one., a much smaller and a still less; it is intimately United with the stomach and in- testines, by means of blood-vdssels, absorbents, nerves, ducts and membraneS) and is destined for the secretiouof bile, a fluid necessary to chylification, and to the expulsion of the faeces:—the gall bladder is attached to the concavity of the great lobe, is joined to the duodenum by the cystic and Qommon ducts, and is appropriated to receive a part of the bile, land to fit it for hi due pvfrposes.—One striking peculiarity belongs to 7tHe' Liver, the bite ' is secreted from venous blood by the tonvoluled extremities oF veins, whereas in all othe^ secretoiy oi-gans, the Huid secreted is produced from arterial blood, and by the con- voluted extremities of arteries.—4t is a:lso worthy of remark, that the blood going to the Liver for the purpose of secre- tion, is collected from die veins oF the chylopoietic viscera;—this general view of the anatomy and office of the Liver is sufficient to point dut the connexion which subsists hetwixt ibis viscus, the stomach and in- testines, and it shews niucIi these three organs thay be influenced one by ih^ pther, in. tfep pxercise of their rcsjoeetive functions. ' ' The Liver is subject to many varieties and degrees of disease: Authors enumerate, inflartimAlion, acute and chronic,$