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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    lation through the spleen, is a putres- cent tendency: this has been conjec- tured in part from its contiguity to the colon^ and in part from the languid state of the circulation through that v'lscus. Without instit]Jting any serious in- quiries into the probable weight of these reasons, and their sufficiency to support the proposition, let us inquire into the fact itself. EXPERIMENT. 14. Two portions of blood, one taken from the splenic artery, the other from the vein, were exposed for four hours to a heat upwards of 90 degrees;