£8G OF HYDATIDS. 



tion of tlie centre of the right lobe, which was ra- 

 ther of an olive, or dirty yellow colour. The liver 

 was of an uncommon bulk, and the convex surface 

 was more prominent than usual towards the middle. 



"^ This was not owing to any ilisease in the glan- 

 dular part of the organ, but to a sac of a yellow 

 colour, and of the size of a large orange, though of 

 an oval shape, and irregular in its surface, situated 

 in the region of the portae of the liver. 



" Over this sac, which was filled with hydatids, 

 the vena portarum, the hepatic artery, and its great 

 branches, as also the hepatic nerves, which were 

 much larger and much harder than common, pass- 

 ed; and the branches of the hepatic nerves could 

 lie distinctly along the gall ducts. 



"' The hepatic, cystic, and common ducts were 

 so much stretched in their course along the surface 

 of the large sac, as scarcely to admit of air to pass 

 through them. 



^* The ductus communis was much enlarged in 

 the portion not compressed next the liver.^ The gall 

 bladder contained but a small quantity of bile, and, 

 from being contracted in several places, had an irreg- 

 ular figure, and scarcely exceeded in size that of si 

 child's at birth ; and over this bowel there was a 

 broad preternatural membrane, uniting the liver to 

 the great arch of the colon. The lymphatics from 

 the liver did not contain bile, and were not coloured 

 by it. 



^^ The adjacent parts betrayed marks of pre- 

 vious inflammation. The stomach and great arch of 



