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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I CHAP. I. ANATOMICAL DESCRIPTION or The LIVER. SECT. I. the secretion of the bile Nature has destined an' organ of considerable size, called the Liver; its magnitude is greater than that of any gland in the body, so that it occupies a large portion of the abdominal cavity. 2. Its shape is so irregular, as not to admit of comparison with any mathe- A matical figure; it is unlike any body with which we are acquainted. This circumstance of the liver is perhaps less essential than many others, as figure does not appear to throw any light on its economy. At least we naturally incline to this opinion, from taking a view of this viscus in different animals, when it appears that the external figure of the liver is determined by the figure of the animal hself, or of that particular cavity in which it is contained. In the human subject it is somewhat flattish and convex on its anterior surface, irregular on its posterior, having several depressions; at its inferior edge there is a fissure extending some way up, particularly on its posterior surface, which forms a division of it into two lobes of unequal sizes. These, from their situation in the abdominal cavity, are distinguished by the names of right and left, of which the right is the larger. Beside these, there is a smaller lobe, situated at the superior and posterior part, called Lobulus Spigelii. 3. Though in adult subjects the right lobe is larger than the left, in the foetus the left is as large as the right. This variety depends on the disposition of the umbilical vein in the foetus with respect to this organ; for on its arrival at that gland it sends off several branches, some of which, penetrating the left lobe, are of considerable size; but after birth, when the circulation takes a ...

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