398 DISEASES OF THE G ASTRO-INTESTINAL TRACT. 



tendency toward sclerosis and contraction, and as a result the 

 atrophic changes in the parenchyma are not so marked. The 

 term biliary is suggested by the fact that it generally arises 



Atrophic cirrhosis of liver, a, acini, in parts much diminished in size; b, inter- 

 acinous bands of connective tissue. X 250 (Schmaus). 



in connection with inflammation or obstruction of the bile- 

 ducts. 



The inflammatory hyperplasia begins around the inter- 

 lobular bile-ducts, instead of around the branches of the portal 

 vein. Experimentally, a monolobular cirrhosis can be pro- 



