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Atlas of pathological anatomy illustrative of A clinical treatise on diseases of the liver / by Fried. Theod. Frerichs ; translated and edited by Charles Murchison.

  • Murchison Charles, 1830-1879.
Date:
1861-1862
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    ]7 PLATE IX. THE PIGMENT-LIVER. MELAN^MIA AND ITS EFFECTS UPON THE LIVER. CHARACTERS OF THE LIVER IN COMPLICATED INTERMITTENT FEVER. Fig. 1. Section of a melansemic liver. The organ has a chocolate-coloured appearance. Reddish- brown figures corresponding to the hepatic veins, which are somewhat hypersemic and loaded with bile-pigment, may be observed scattered through a greyish-black basis. Fig. 2. Pigment-matter from the portal vein. a From the trunk of the portal vein. Epithelium-cells from the lining membrane of the vessel containing black pigment, some of them with a distinct nucleus of a spindle-shaped or rounded form; the younger cells are coloured reddish-brown. Normal blood-corpuscle.s. q! From the splenic vein. h Cylindrical scales (Schollen), containing pigment. c Large coagula loaded with black pigment from the splenic vein. (See Vol. I, p. 321.) Fig. 3. Fine section of a pigment-liver previously boiled and treated with a solution of potash, magni- fied 280 diameters. The pigment is deposited in the capillaries between the hepatic cells, as far as the central vein. (See Vol. I, p. 317.) Fig. 4. Fine section of another liver treated in the same manner, magnified 90 diameters. The pig- ment is seen to be deposited for the most part in the interlobular veins, forming a black zone surrounding each lobule, and to have penetrated but very slightly into the interior of the lobules. (Case of Krocker, Observation XLIII. Vol. I, pp. 318 and 350.) Fig. 5. An injected melansemic liver, from a patient, who died ten weeks after the cessation of an attack of Intermittent Fever. The portal veins which are filled with yellow injection, are enlarged as far as their entrance into the lobules, where they terminate in a club-shaped man- ner; their capillary prolongations ai*e but imperfectly injected, owing to some of them being filled with pigment and obliterated. The capillaries of the hepatic vein, which are filled with red injection, present nothing abnormal. Tlie hepatic cells are impregnated with bile-pigment. o