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CHAPTER VII. 



DIFFUSE INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER THE CHRONIC 

 FOUM. 



(Hepatitis Diffusa Chronica AdTuesiva.) 



SYNONYMOUSLY. The chronic form of Diffused Inflam- 

 mation of the Liver is known as the Hepatitis Diffusa 

 Chronica Adhsesiva, of Aritaeus the Marasmus Hepatis 

 of Bianchi, the Hepar Durum Tuberculosa of Morgagni, 

 the simple Granular Induration of Matthew Baillie, 

 the Interstitial Hepatitis of Abercrombie, the simple 

 Granular Induration of some French writers, the 

 Hepar Duram Vitellarium* of Glossy, the Hob-nailed 

 Liver of Hcecker, the Cirrhosis of Laennec, the simple 

 Atrophy of Carswell andKiernan, and the Gin-drinker's 

 Liver of English practitioners. 



HISTORICALLY. Aritseus, the Cappadocian, and con- 

 temporary of Galen, A.D. 131, was about the first to 

 describe " Induration of the Liver " as a consequence of 

 inflammation, 



" Verum si a phlegmone hepar non suppuratur, nemini 

 dubium fuerit, turnorem durum subsidentum in scirrhurn 

 iimtari ac Stabiliri." Book I., chap. 13. 



* From its resemblance to the Vitellarium of a laying hen. 

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