Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice and abdominal dropsy : including the Croonian Lectures on functional derangements of the liver delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in 1874.

  • Charles Murchison
Date:
1877
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    these lectures to point out to you the chief signs and symptoms resulting* from hepatic disease, the different morbid conditions from which each of them may arise, the rules by which you must be mainly guided in determining the precise disease in each case, and the conclusions to which you ought in this way to be led respecting prognosis and treatment. We shall com- mence, for instance, by discussing the different causes of En- largement of the Liver ; and in subsequent lectures, the causes of Atrophy of the Liver, of Jaundice, Hepatic Pain, Hepatic Dropsy, &c., will be duly considered. i:nlargements of the liver. Before proceeding to consider the various causes of true enlargement of the liver, it is necessary to have an accurate knowledge of its normal dimensions and boundaries, and also to keep in view certain conditions which during life may simulate enlargement. Fig. ]. Natural Position of the Liver, as seen after removal of the anterior wall of the chebt and abdomen. Modified from Sibson's Med. Anatomy. A Liver. Ii Ascending colon. C, Tmnsvorso colon, n. Descending colon. K, Small intestines. F, Stomach, o, Heart, ii, Higlit lung, i, Left lung. Normal situation and dimensions of the liver.—The liver is situated in the right hypochondrium, the convexity of the right