VI PREFACE. 



For a knowledge of the early history and advanced 

 pathology of many of the more obscure diseases of the 

 liver, I am indebted to the researches of Frerichs and 

 Kokitanski; for practical experiments to Sanders; for 

 tropical and pyaemic abscesses to Annesley and Ward ; 

 and for valuable clinical observations to Budd and 

 others. 



This little work does not aim at being a complete or 

 exhaustive exposition of the subject upon which it 

 treats; it, however, embraces a large section of the 

 most important of " liver complaints," and the author 

 anticipates for it, with all its shortcomings, a useful 

 career. 



Ou> STEINE, BRIGHTON, 

 AprillSth, 1877. 



