HE: PR; 
fcobeth. fuch as its artery, vein’, excretory duét, and nerves, 
ee L 
ivpatic Air. See ay Mohgees Hyprocen Gas. 
= ATIC Aloes. - See ALO 
Rs ATic Dud, isa soil more ufually called porus. bila- 
i < e Flux, fluxus hepaticus, or hapatii rhea, in Me- 
dicine, denominations given er writers, upon Ly po- 
thetical grounds, to a variety of diarrheea, ia which watery 
ftools, coloured with fome blood, are difcharged without 
fever, and cena without pain. Juneker, Sauvages, &c. 
See. DiaARRE 
See PLexus hg ans 
is that.otherwife called dafiica. 
HEPATICA, in Botany, fee Anemone. It was 
called becaufe the fmooth three-lobed and dull-purplith i 
was thought to convey fome idea of the human liver. Dille- 
nius made it a diltinct genus, on Mg hs of the three-leaved 
calyx ;. which, howev Fai bein little remote from the 
flower, was taken by zeus Por an involucrunt, as an. un- 
doubted fpecies of 7 and not a perianthium. 
Poca alba is an old name for the Parnaffia palufiris ; and 
#1. paluftris was once an appellation of the Chry/a/plenium. 
Hepatica is alfo the old name of the Lichen ot Dillenius, 
Marchantia of Linneus, fuppofed to be good for difeafes in 
the liver; fee Marcuantira. Hence the term has recently 
been adopted to defignate a sl i weet order. of plants, 
to which that genus belongs. See HEPATIC. 
Hepartica, in Gardening, the common name of a tuberous- 
rooted flowering plant. See NEMOSE 
HEPATICA, in Botany, 
eryptogamic zt ate vegeta ee 
mann, in his Fl. 
that there newer 
continuity between thofe parts, like the fal 
af the leat im other plants, at any period of their 
The. genera of this order, all Britifh, ftand thus in 
'Marchantia, yoy moot Largionia, Anthoce- 
a Blafia, Riccia and. Spheroca 
» and arrangement o 
of thet fruit, is often very peculiar and elaborate, 
tending. as it feems, to the di = of their feeds, 
“meats o f elaftic or hygrometrig 
HEP 
HEPATIS Invarcrvs, in | Medicine, fignifies, in the lan 
guage. of the older writers, an ob{truétion or congeftion ae 
pei in the liver, and is fynonymous with the Hepatalgi ain 
us of Sauy vages, above mentioned. See Chronic Di ifealie es 
of fhe uy Ek. 
pExTIS, Sn nme, hepar, the tay with, 
a ition itis, oe a serait ioe of the li 
The fiver, like moit other parts of the body, is s liable to: 
infammation under = forms, the acute and the chronic ; and’ 
it has generally been fuppofed that thefe varieties of difeafe 
confift, in fact, of a difference in the feat of the inflamma-. 
tion. Some phy ficians ee fuggelted that the inflammation 
of the acute form, when the enveloping membrane of the. 
iver is affected 5 and of Fe chronic form when the paren- 
_ehyma, or fubftance of the organ itfelf is nflamed. (See Dre 
Cullen’s Firft Lines, § 418.) While others have conceivedy 
that the acute inflammation appears, when the extremities of; 
the hepatic artery are particularly affecied ; and the chnnits 
when the branches of the hepatic vein, or vena » whic 
conveys the principal portion of blood.to the liver, is the; 
feat of the morbid adtion ; seals on the: 
Sie ae and Difeafes of: the Liver. 
edit., Of the lait, fuppofition, Dr. 
that ices is neither evidence nor probability : and we nian 
add, that, as the two analogous forms of inflammation occur. 
ino pies organs, as in the lungs, and the ftomach, in which, 
- whole circulation ie wig phi by one fet of veflely : ne 
© difference i in the fe the inflammation, as ftated by: 
Dr Le 
is anise 
ance lait-men 
expettoration cen shied 
berton fuggetts, fee his 
of the Abdomin 
matory diathefis. When 
i or peripneumony, +t 
the ed. If the inflammation privit t 
furface of-the liver, fo that the. Se becomes 
the pain is much increafed by reffure, 
with, the mout 
- and throat, Sesert: dry. ‘The urine is fecreted in a 
a ae ured,. and frequently age 
