Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice and abdominal dropsy : including the Croonian lectures on functional derangements of the liver delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in 1874 / by Charles Murchison.

  • Murchison, Charles, 1830-1879.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice and abdominal dropsy : including the Croonian lectures on functional derangements of the liver delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in 1874 / by Charles Murchison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lobe corresponding to the concavity at the base of the right lung with the diaphragm interposed, and the under surface being opposed to the stomach and large intestine, the right kidney and supra-renal capsule. The convex upper surface projects up into the right side of the chest, and a great part of Fig. 2. Natiiral Position of the Liver, as seen after the removal of the posterior wall of the chest and abdomen. Modified from Sibson's Med. Anatomy. The liver is covered by the diaphragm, beneath which, on the left side (b) there is also the spleen and a portion of the stomach. A, Eight lobe of liver, c, Ascending colon, d, Descending colon. it is in immediate juxtaposition with the ribs, but the upper- most portion (in a vertical direction) is separated from the wall of the chest by the thin lower margin of the right lung. (See fig. 1.) Accordingly, in percussion during life, the upper B 2