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Thannhauser and Reinstein (1942) also provide valuable 

 figures for human and fatty livers. The latter were the outcome of 

 subacute bacterial endocarditis, bronchopneumonia, tuberculosis 

 of the lung and alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver. These data show 

 that the outstanding clinical feature in the fatty liver is a pro- 

 nounced increase in the neutral fat. Phospholipids and especially 

 lecithin are about normal or decreased in amount. 



Lipid Partition in Human Normal and Fatty Livers 

 (Thannhauser and Reinstein) 



Some useful information has come from microchemical and 

 histological analyses of needle puncture material obtained from 

 fatty livers (Billing et al., 1953) . 8 non-cirrhotic, non-fatty livers 

 contained 3.5-7.8 g. total lipid per 100 g. wet weight, 5 cirrhotic, 

 non-fatty livers contained 2.3-8.7 g. per 100 g. wet weight. In con- 

 trast, 8 non-cirrhotic, fatty livers gave the following figures for total 



