Archive image from page 173 of The cyclopædia of anatomy and. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology cyclopdiaofana03todd Year: 1847 160 NORMAL ANATOMY OF THE LIVER. De generatione animalium, Lond. 1651. Glisson, De vita naturali, Lond. 1672. Stahl, De vita, Halle, 1701. De Gorter, De actione viventium particular;, Amstel. 1748. Hoffman, Dissertatio vitae animalis, Halle, 1731. Bonnet, sur les corps organises, Amst. 1776. Brown, Elementa medi- cine, Edinb. 1780. Priestley, On matter and spirit, Birm. 1782. Hunter, On the animal economy, Lond. 1786. Darwin, Zoonomia, Lond. 1794. Cu- vier, L
Archive image from page 173 of The cyclopædia of anatomy and. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology cyclopdiaofana03todd Year: 1847 160 NORMAL ANATOMY OF THE LIVER. De generatione animalium, Lond. 1651. Glisson, De vita naturali, Lond. 1672. Stahl, De vita, Halle, 1701. De Gorter, De actione viventium particular;, Amstel. 1748. Hoffman, Dissertatio vitae animalis, Halle, 1731. Bonnet, sur les corps organises, Amst. 1776. Brown, Elementa medi- cine, Edinb. 1780. Priestley, On matter and spirit, Birm. 1782. Hunter, On the animal economy, Lond. 1786. Darwin, Zoonomia, Lond. 1794. Cu- vier, Le9ons d' anat. comp., Paris, 1799. Bichat, Sur la vie et la mort, Paris, 1802. Oken, Abriss <les Systems der Biologic, Goett. 1805. Wolff, Ideen iiber Lebenskraft, Altona, 1806. Abcrnethy, On Hunter's Theory of Life, Lond. 1814. Law- rence, Lectures on physiology, &c. Lond. 1816. Philip, On the laws of the vital functions, Lond. 1817. Pring, On the laws of organic life, Lond. 1819. Barclay, On life and organisation, Edinb. 1822. Good, Study of medicine, Lond. 1825. Prichard, On the vital principle, Lond. 1829. Bell, Bridgwater treatise, Lond. 1833. Prout, Bridg- water treatise, Lond. 1834. Roberton, On life and mind, Lond. 1836. Clark, Report on physiology to Brit. Assoc. 1834. Reil, Von der Lebenskraft, in Archiv. I. B. ( W. B. Carpenter.) LIVER, NORMAL ANATOMY.—Syn. Gr. »}7ra£; Lat. jecur, hepar; Fran, foie; Germ. Lel/er; Ital. fegato. The liver is a conglo- merate gland of large size, appended to the alimentary canal, and performing the double office of separating certain impurities from the venous blood of the chylopoietic viscera, pre- viously to its return into the general circulation, and of secreting a fluid necessary to digestion— the bile. It is situated in the abdomen, in the right hypochondriac region, and extends across the epigastrium into the left hypochondriac region. Superiorly it ascends to a level with the sixth or seventh rib, diminishing the cavi
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