A treatise on the structure, economy, and diseases of the liver : with an inquiry into the properties and component parts of bile and biliary calculi. ... To which is now added a more particular account of the hepatitis of India, with observations on the prevalent use of mercury in the diseases of this country / By William Saunders, M.D. FRS. & SA. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; and Physician Extraordinary to the Prince of Wales.

  • William Saunders
Date:
1809
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Credit: A treatise on the structure, economy, and diseases of the liver : with an inquiry into the properties and component parts of bile and biliary calculi. ... To which is now added a more particular account of the hepatitis of India, with observations on the prevalent use of mercury in the diseases of this country / By William Saunders, M.D. FRS. & SA. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; and Physician Extraordinary to the Prince of Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    subject of the present case was a child apparently about one year old, in every respect well nourished.']' This singular case certainly appears to shew, that to a certain degree at least, arterial blood is capable of furnishing the principles necessary to the formation of bile. But it would nevertheless be carrying the argument it affords too far, to conclude from thence, that venous blood is not particularly fitted for the purpose; and, that it is merely on ac- count of some convenience perhaps in the distribution of vessels, that the liver is chiefly supplied by a vein rather than by an artery. An extended view of the animal economy proves, that however t Phil. Trans, for 1793. Part I.