A Practical Essay on Diseases of the Viscera: Particularly Those of the Stomach and Bowels, the Liver, Spleen, and Urinary Bladder: In Which Their Nature, Treatment, and Cure, Are Clearly Pointed Out and Explained
A Practical Essay on Diseases of the Viscera: Particularly Those of the Stomach and Bowels, the Liver, Spleen, and Urinary Bladder: In Which Their Nature, Treatment, and Cure, Are Clearly Pointed Out and Explained
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1792 edition. Excerpt: ... reside in low, unhealthy situations, during the damp, autumnal seasons; more especially, if they are inactive and labour under anxiety of mind. As? minute description of the Liver would not only be unnecessary, but imperfectly understood by the generality of Readers, it can only be requisite to afford ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1792 edition. Excerpt: ... reside in low, unhealthy situations, during the damp, autumnal seasons; more especially, if they are inactive and labour under anxiety of mind. As? minute description of the Liver would not only be unnecessary, but imperfectly understood by the generality of Readers, it can only be requisite to afford a competent idea of its structure and use. The Liver appears to be the mcst complex Organ in the human system, being composed of a pulpy, tender substance, and a congeries of various vessels, of different orders j chiefly, for the purpose of preparing Bile, and transmitting it into the intestinal canal; although, by the antients, it was erroneoufly supposed the principal organs of ianguification. It may be considered as a large gland consisting of two lobes, the largest of which is situated on the right side, above the short ribs, immediately under the arch of the diaphragm, a part which di vides the breast from the belly; and its small lobe on the left, above the stomach, upon which a part of it lies in contact, and is extended. The Liver chiefly receives its blood by a large vein named Vena Tort arum; and that its distribution may be better understood, it may be compared to a shrub or small tree, having its trunk in the center, its branches in the circumference of the Liver, and its root in the whole abdominal viscera; namely the intestines, mefentary, and omentum, &c. from all which it brings refluent blood, for the secretion of bile, the use of which has been already specified in the first section. It is here necessary to remark a certain peculiarity in the distribution of its blood-vessels j for, instead of receiving blood by an artery, that fluid is sent to the Liver by a vein, as already mentioned; so that the order of circulation is...
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