A treatise on the structure, economy, and diseases of the liver : together with an enquiry into the properties and component parts of the bile and biliary concretions / by William Saunders.

  • Saunders, William, 1743-1817.
Date:
1793
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Credit: A treatise on the structure, economy, and diseases of the liver : together with an enquiry into the properties and component parts of the bile and biliary concretions / by William Saunders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAP, I ANATOMICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE LIVER. SECT, t To the fecretion of the bile Nature has deftined an organ of confiderable flze called the liver; its magnitude is greater than that of any gland in the body, fo that it occupies a very conlider- able part of the abdominal cavity. 2. Its figure is fomewhat irregular, >confequently it does not readily admit of