SECT. XXX. i. PARALYSIS OF THE LIVER. 



and Mr. B. had frequent and great haemorrhages 

 from an iflue and fome parts of his mouth, a few 

 days before his death. In both thefe cafes calomel, 

 bitters and chalybeates were repeatedly ufed with- 

 out effecl. ' 



One of the patients defcribed above, Mr. G. was 

 by trade a plumber ; both of them could digeft no 

 food, and died apparently for want of blood. Might 

 not the transfufion of blood be ufed in thefe cafes 

 with advantage ? 



5. When the paralyfis of the hepatic glands is 

 Jefs complete, or lefs univerfal, a fchirrofity of fome 

 part of the liver is induced ; for the fecretory vef- 

 fels retaining fome of their living power take up a 

 fluid from the circulation, without being fufficiently 

 irritable to cany it forwards to their excretory duds; 

 hence the body, or receptacle of each gland, be- 

 comes inflated, and this diftenfion increafes, till, by 

 its very great ftimulus inflammation is produced, or 

 till thofe parts of the vifcus become totally paraly- 

 tic. This difeafe is diftinguifhable from the fore- 

 going by the palpable hardnefs or largenefs of the 

 liver; and as the hepatic glands are not totally para- 

 lytic, or the whole liver not atfec"led, fome bile con- 

 tinues to be made. The inflammations of this 

 vifcus, confequent to the fchirrofity of it, belong to 

 the difeafes of the fenfuive motions, and will be 

 treated of hereafter. 



6. The ancients are faid to have poffefled an art 

 of increafing the livers of geefe to a fize greater 

 'than the remainder of the goofe. Martial. 1. 13. 



epig. 58. This is faid to have been done by fat and 

 fig*. Horace, 1. 2. fat. 8. Juvenal fets thefe large 

 Jivers before an epicure as a great rarity. Sat. 5. 1. 

 114; and Perfius, "fat. 6. 1.71. Pliny fays thefe 

 large goofe-livers'were foaked in mulled milk, that 

 is, I fappofe, milk mixed with honey and wine ; and 

 "adds, <c that it is uncertain whether Scipio Metellus, 



of 



