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affections. Among the valuable collections of the post- 

 mortem observations of this era we recognize those of 

 Thomas Partholin, Nicholas Tuepins, D. Panaroli, J. I. 

 Webfer, F. Ruysch, J. C. Peyer, and Theophilus Bonet, 

 and the masterly researches of the immortal Morgagni, 

 whose work appeared in 1762. From that period to 

 the end of the eighteenth century a great number of 

 physicians occupied themselves with anatomico-patho- 

 logical investigations, and added new and valuable ob- 

 servations to those already known. Among these may be 

 more particularly mentioned T. Walter, Sandifert, Portal, 

 Lieutund, John Hunter, and more especially Bichat, 

 who, uniting to a genius eminently generalizing an ad- 

 mirable talent for analysis and observation, shed, not 

 only on pathological anatomy, but on the whole of 

 Anthology, a clear light, whose rays have directed the 

 arduous labours of many a brilliant successor. For 

 the study of " true suppurating Inflammation of the 

 Liver," however, a disease which is onlyfound prevalent 

 in tropical countries, particularly in' the East Indies, we 

 owe far more to the researches of our own countrymen 

 than to any of the Continental physicians, as recorded 

 in the able works of Annesley, published in 1841 ; 

 Charles Murehead, 1856; W. Saunders, 1809 ; Griffiths, 

 and others. 



True suppurating Inflammation of the Liver is a 

 rarity in our own climate, as well as in other countries 

 in the temperate zone, although numerous cases have 

 been designated as such, when the symptoms present 

 were only due to " hypenemia " of the gland, a catarrh 

 of the bile-ducts, or to an inflammatory condition of the 

 serous covering, or of the hepatic vessels. We do, 



