. The complete herbalist : or the people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies : describing the great curative properties found in the herbal Materia medica, Vegetable.; Botany, Medical.; Medicinal 240 THE COMPLETE HERBALIST. wUl cure them and restore them to vigorous health, so that they may once more enjoy the boon of healthy digestive organs. (See page 469.) ANATOMY OF THE LIVER. The liver is the largest glandular organ in the body; its office is to secrete bile. It is oblong and oval in shape, and occupies the position on the right side, under the lower ri
. The complete herbalist : or the people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies : describing the great curative properties found in the herbal Materia medica, Vegetable.; Botany, Medical.; Medicinal 240 THE COMPLETE HERBALIST. wUl cure them and restore them to vigorous health, so that they may once more enjoy the boon of healthy digestive organs. (See page 469.) ANATOMY OF THE LIVER. The liver is the largest glandular organ in the body; its office is to secrete bile. It is oblong and oval in shape, and occupies the position on the right side, under the lower ribs. It weighs from four to five pounds ; it measures from ten to twelve inches transversely, and from Bix to seven antero-posteriorly ; its greatest thickness is from four to five inches. On the upper surface it is convex, and on the lower concave. Its color is of a reddish-brown, with occasional spots of black. The under surface of the liver presents a deep fissure, called umbilical or longitudinal, reaching from the anterior'^ to the posterior^'' notch, containing the re- mains of the umbili- cal vein of foetal life. Sometimes this fis- sure is converted into a foramen,'' or open- ing, the right and left lobes being connect- ed. At right angles to this fissure is ano- ther, called the tr^ans- mrse^'^ fissure, con- taining the portal vein, hepatic artery, and hepatic duct, bound together by the capsule of Glisson, a membrane of cellular tissue. The gall-hladder^° lies in a deep depression upon the under surface of the right lobe of the liver. The lohulus quadratus^ is that portion of the liver included between the depression occupied by the gall-bladder and the longitudinal and transverse fissures. At the posterior and inferior por- tion of the liver is a triangular lobe called the lohulus Spigelii.'^ The elon- gated ridge running from the lobulus Spigelii outwardly is the lobulus caudatus.^ These lobules are, however, all contained in the two lobes of the liver. The rigJit l
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