Preparing for Publication, uniform icHli " Kidney Diseases, L'rina)y 

 Deposits, and Calculous Disorders,'' and the " Microscop)e in 

 Medicine" 



THE DISEASES OF THE LIVER AND THEIR 

 TREATMENT. 



Iiicludinor the Anatomy of the Organ in IMan and Vertebrate 

 Animals. With upwards of 50 Plates of original Drawings, being a 

 second edition of the Author's Work on the Liver. 



CONTENTS. 



I. — Of the method of investigation —Preparation of specimens for 

 demonstrating the structure of the liver — Of injecting the 

 vessels and ducts. 



II. — The Uver ' cell ' or elementary part. 



III. — The invertebrate liver. 



IV. — The vertebrate liver — General arrangement — Portal canals — 

 Hepatic venous canals — The lobules of tlie liver — Distribution 

 of vessels — Portal vein — Hepatic artery — Hepatic duct — 

 Vasa aberantia — Lymphatics — Nerves — Vessels of gall 

 bladder — Glisson's capsule — The intimate structure of the 

 lobides — Capillaries — Cell-containing network — The liver 

 'cells' of vertebrate animals. 



V. — On the ultimate ramifications of the ducts, and of their con- 

 nection with the cell-coutauiing network ; in mammalia, 

 birds, reptiles,, and fishes — The conclusions of previous 

 observers. 



VI. — The circulation in the liver — The position of the liver as a 

 secreting organ — The liver and kidney compai-ed. 



VII. — Diseases of the liver — Of congestion of the liver. 



VIII. — Of the formation of cysts in the liver. 



IX. — Of fatty liver — Deposition of fatty matter : a, at the circum- 

 ference of lobules ; b, in the centre of the lobides. 



X. — Of waxy, albuminous, or amyloid degeneration of the liver. 



XL — Of cirrhosis of the liver. 



XII.— Of cancer. 



XIII.— Of jaundice. 



LONDON : J. AND A. CHURCHILL. 

 PHILADELPHU : LINDSAY AND BLAKISTON. 



