700 



THE LIVER. 



extirpation of cancer of the throat, died of pyaemia, the first rigor 

 having set in four days before death, infarctions and abscesses 

 were found in the lungs, the liver, and the kidneys, nowhere 

 large or numerous. (This is the same case to which Dr. A. W. 

 Johnstone refers in his article, see page 546.) Sections through 

 the tissue of this liver, at a point where an infarction the size of 



BD 



FIG. 313. SUPPURATIVE HEPATITIS IN PYAEMIA. 



PV, portal veiii tilled with blood- and pus-corpuscles ; A, hepatic artery, containing blood- 

 and pus-corpuscles; L V, lymph- vessel ; BD, bile-duct; LE, epithelia of a'lobnle of the liver. 

 Magnified 600 diameters. 



a hazel-nut had occurred, which, to the naked eye, looked dark 

 purple-red at its periphery and yellowish in its center, exhibited 

 the following peculiar features. (See Fig. 313.) 



The portal veins were engorged with coarsely granular, irreg- 



