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intestinalium impr. eorum epithelii etvasorum lacteorum," c. tab. Berol., 

 1837, 4to. ; J. Flouch, "Recherches sur la membrane muqueuse intes- 

 tinale, in Mem. de la socie'te d'histoire natur. de Strasbourg," III. 3, 

 Strasb., 1845; A. Th. Middeldorpf, " De glandulis Brunnianis," 

 Yratisl. 1846, c. tab. ; E. H. Weber, in " Muller's Archiv," 1847, p. 

 400 ; and in " Berichte der Koniglichen Sachsischen Gesellschaft der 

 Wissenschaften," Heft VII. 18 May, 1847, p. 245; Frerichs (and 

 Frei), Article, " Verdauung, in Wagner's Handw. d. Physiologic," Bd. 

 III. p. 738-755; R. 0. Ziegler, " Ueber die solitaren und Peyer'- 

 schen Follikel," Wurzburg, 1850, Diss. ; E. Brucke, 1. " Ueber den 

 Bau und die physiologische Bedeutung der Peyer'schen Driisen, in 

 Denkschriften der Wiener Akademie," bd. II. 1850, p. 21, with 1 plate; 

 2. " Das Muskelsystem der Schleimhaut des Magens ;" and 3. " Ueber 

 ein in der Darmschleimhaut aufgefundenes Muskelsystem," in the " Be- 

 richten der Akademie," 1851 ; Kolliker, " Ueber das Vorkommen von 

 glatten Muskelfasern in Schleimhauten," in " Zeitschrift fiir wiss. 

 Zoologie," III. 1851, p. 106, und Nachtrag dazu. Heft II. ; F. Ernst, 

 "Ueber die Anordnung der Blutgefasse in den Darrnhauten," Zurich, 

 1851, Diss. c. tab. 



[Briich, "Beitrage zur Anatomie und Physiologie des Dunndarrn- 

 Schleimhaut," Siebold and Kolliker's "Zeitschrift," 1853; also three 

 most important papers by Brucke, " Ueber die Aufsaugung des Chy- 

 lus," Sitzungsberichte d. Wiener Akad. Dec. 1852 ; " Ueber den Urs- 

 prung und den Verlauf der Chylusgefasse," ibid. January, 1853, and 

 " Ueber die Chylusgefasse und die Fortbewegung des Chylus," ibid., 

 .March, 1853, which have come into our hands too late for further re- 

 ference.* Tus.] 



OF THE LIVER. 



| 158. The liver, a large gland, is at once distinguished from those 

 ccornpound glands, such as the salivary, which have hitherto been de- 

 .scribed, by the intimate connection of its larger subdivisions and by the 

 very peculiar structure of its secreting parenchyma, which elaborates 

 fthe bile. The component parts are, the secreting parenchyma, consist- 

 ing of the lobules or islets of the liver and of the networks of hepatic 

 cells ; the biliary passages which are formed in this, and the efferent 

 biliary ducts ; very numerous bloodvessels ; a considerable number of 

 lymphatics and nerves ; and finally, a peritoneal investment. 



159. Secreting parenchyma, hepatic -lobes and hepatic substance. 

 If the surface or a section of the liver be regarded, it generally exhi- 

 3>its a mottled appearance, which is usually of such a kind, that small, 



* [See note, p. 516. DaC.] 



