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.

Date:
1795
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    of the liver confidered, 55. The proportion between mufcles and the arteries that fupply them, 56. Tendons compared with their arteries, 57. The brain with its arteries, ib. All thefe parts are nouriihed, but require different proportions of blood for their ac- tions, ibid. The a&ion of a fecreting organ fuppofes great vital energy, 58—-hence much blood, ibid. An extraordinary lufus natu- re, 59. CHAP. V. Interior Structure &f the Liver, 61. In what part of the liver is fecretion perform- ed—Terminations of the vena portarum, 62. Reafons for thinking the fecretion is per- formed in the mofl minute veffels, 63, How far fecretion depends on any peculiar arrange- ments of parts, ibid. The opinions of Mal- pighi and Ruyfch flated, 64. Appearances like cryptas in the liver, 65. Alfo in the kidney, 66.