A treatise on the structure, economy, and diseases of the liver : together with an inquiry into the properties and component parts of the bile and biliary concretions / by William Saunders, M.D. F.R.S. ; fellow of the College of Physicians, and senior physician to Guy's Hospital.

  • Saunders, William, 1743-1817.
Date:
1797
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Credit: A treatise on the structure, economy, and diseases of the liver : together with an inquiry into the properties and component parts of the bile and biliary concretions / by William Saunders, M.D. F.R.S. ; fellow of the College of Physicians, and senior physician to Guy's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    On making a fection through its centre, it appeared to be compofed of lamella. It was%rubbed to powder very eafily. Its tafle was moderately bitter. It was fufible by heat, and when inflamed, burned like a refinous fubftance. Ol. terebinth, unaided by heat, diftblved a very large portion ; but alcohol, under the fame circumflances, diilblved only a fmall part. 8. To determine how far the agency of heat could affift the folvent power of alco- hol, an experiment was made. EXPERIMENT. Twenty grains of this calculus were infufed in an ounce of alcohol, and, after previous agitation, the phial was placed in a fand bath. Before the fluid had arrived