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THE LIVER. 



extremely rarefied bioplasson retieulum. The connection of the lumps and of 

 the retieulum itself was nowhere broken, so much so that this remnant of the 

 former liver-tissue still deserves the name of tissue, and cannot be called 

 detritus. Where the living matter of the constituent tissues of the liver, which 

 is so noticeably decreased in amount, has gone to, I am unable to say. Nev- 

 ertheless, I am positive that the reduction of the size of the whole liver is 

 entirely due to a loss of its living matter. 



As before mentioned in the second case which I examined, there were 

 marked features of acute interstitial hepatitis. The interstitial tissue in 

 some places was crowded with globular inflammatory corpuscles of a coarsely 

 granular or homogeneous appearance, several of which were inclosed in a 

 mesh of a delicate fibrous retieulum. At the border of the lobule the stages 

 of transition of liver epithelia into medullary or inflammatory corpuscles 



FIG. 316. YELLOW ATROPHY OF THE LIVER. 



E, cluster of liver epithelia with indistinct nuclei ; V, compressed capillaries ;"B, capillary 

 engorged with red blood-corpuscles ; L, division of liver epithelia into irregular lumps, with 

 a rarelied bioplasson retieulum and a few fat-granules ; S, accomplished disintegration into 

 particles of varying sizes, mixed with red blood-corpuscles. Magnified 800 diameters. 



could be plainly seen. In other places the breaking down of the liver 

 epithelia proceeded nearly simultaneously from the epithelia of the lobule 

 left, with the result that, instead of shining, homogeneous, only finely gran- 

 ular, irregular medullary corpuscles were seen. The process was essentially 

 the same as in the first case, although of much less intensity, and there was 

 also present a more decided inflammatory new formation than in the first 



