Contribution to the study of the vertebrate liver / by Sheridan Delépine ; communicated by T. Lauder Brunton. Received November 20, 1890.

  • Auguste Sheridan Delépine
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[1891]
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Credit: Contribution to the study of the vertebrate liver / by Sheridan Delépine ; communicated by T. Lauder Brunton. Received November 20, 1890. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    paramitoma of the liver cells the following anaplastic and kataplastic products maybe demonstrated easily:—serous fluid (vacuoles) bile pigment, pigment containing iron, glycogen, fat, &c. [It is to be remembered that, soon after the discovery of lobules in the pig's liver by Wepfer (1664), Malpighi (1666) described these lobules as being appended to the extremities of the vessels contained in Glisson's capsule. Ferrein (1749) showed that the liver, like other glands of the body, had a tubular structure; but, as he included the spleen among the tubular glands, it may be doubted whether he did more than generalise on the basis of his observations on the kidney. Three years before the publication of Kiernan's paper, Miiller seems to have noticed the pinnate arrangement to which I have given the name of portal lines of divergence; but there can be little doubt as to the general acceptance of Kiernan's views after the publication of his observations in 18.33 ('Philosophical Transactions'). The work of Kiernan was in great part based on the result of injections through the vessels. For an account of the history of the subject, I would refer the reader to Kiernan's admirable paper, in which a great many points which I have purposely left aside will be also found mentioned — Dec. 17, 1890.]