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Show e Absorbent VI'SSPZS Of 2175 particular Distribution (y‘z‘b by trunks They are also sometimes joined cond trunk of the absorbents. described. dy alrea m, ardiu peric the on from the glands very ce of the liver seldom put on any The ahsorbents on the under surfa and are ince, surfa the upon seen are regular appearance; and when they cvcr, deeper-seated set. One plexus,how jectcd, they are quickly lost in the of the great in 1170 different Paris of flat Bodv. 189 188 it begins on the lower edge I have observed pretty constant; all that of the gall-bladder; it runs over om bott lobe of the liver, near the whole of d from the liver, that is, the part of the gall-bladder which is turne s seen that its neck; and I have sometime to s fundu its from side, r its unde . V'thn I injected bents absor with ed cover ely entir er side of the gall-bladd at last through glands situated at the these with quicksilver, they passed gh other glands, lying on the trunk neck of the gall-bladder, afterwards throu he- ce they passed into the thoracic duct, of the rcna portarum, from when on examination, that I had , found I that here was It hind the pancreas. n valves, the absorbents ofthe splee injected, contrary to the course of the h of the latter nearly-This plexus and pancreas, through the whole lengt nguished by the name of plexus cys- ofabsorbing vesselsI have usually disti mpany the vena portarum every acco bents absor ted r-sea ticus.--The deepe rupeds appear to be the principal plexA where through the liver, and in quad por- g animals, on the trunk of the vena us. By making ligatures, in livin sed the trunks ofthe absorbents tarum, before it enters the liver, 1 have inclo then seen them turgid with have I de; outsi its to cling h coming out, whic ance of the liver, in the subst the gh throu ging their own lymph, and diver the human subject, the deepersame manner as the pori biliarii; yet, in ficial ones, which I have seated ones anastomose so much with the super est part of the lymph of great the dent confi am I that already described, bly with a view to diminish the quan- the liver passes through them, proba ascended against gravity in the tity of fluid, which otherwise must have s, as it comes out of the portae, d plexu seate e deep- ---Th duct. cic thora sts of a great number of absor- I have called plcrus ptirlarum; it consi the trunk of the vena portaupon s bent vessels, which pass into gland h are inserted into the themrum, which afterwards form trunks, whic teric artery.-This plexus cic duct, near the origin of the superior mesen culum vasorum numeis very well described by Hallcr 2 " Abeunt in fasci rosorum, rosorum, qut adit glandulas conglobati gencris qua: in fasciculum ' leitcipatleplruén per portas euntium se immiscent, et vesiculm fellm: acsefirviildi am a si ‘ i ' l i in gazella_ p:fitsini,l:lii::ealiislziiiicneigfizhmamfénc US. 3 ‘fm cm Plcxum pellmidum traits ancreas ‘Iidi' ZII'ICYIH mesentericam ad aortam usque sequuntur, et uno pluribupsve d ' "m Secundigeneris) ' UCUbUS, V serttntur vesicul ‘ m‘ i e''thoracico, ' 21:11:l15yll};a' d;c(t1tei‘ir\:' commista cum vasis lacteis .From the description I have given, and from the annexed en ' v' will appear, that the liver has a greater number of absorbeiitgrfhmg) 1i viscus I have yet described. I have said, that the absorbent: art (mlfn‘) double of the arteries and veins. Now the liver is one of the in L at, fa" lar parts 1n the body; it was for this reason that the ancients CO‘:;:1V"5CILI‘ as the fountain of the blood; it was this made Asellius preci )itatelch( 1‘ _Y C?"clude, that the lacteals were carrying the chy'le to the liver Itl there be converted into blood. But if the blood-vessels are)soml It "l‘gl" and if the absorbents are at least double their number in other pdi‘itlinrffotlff: body, 1t IS not astonishing that they should be so numerous here I‘Ve dL not know the whole functions of the liver; we know that its riiici )al 1 f in the adult, is to secrete the bile; but then in the foetus itpoccuiies ilk: greater part of the cavity of the abdomen, when the bile is but littlciwantelf and a considerable portion of the blood, returning from the placenta 5" culates'through its substance; it occupies a less space in prmortio'nuir- the cavity of the abdomen as the body grows up, and it'is tnord than ' "1 bable that it performs some function not yet understood. Till that fpm- tron is understood, the whole of the office of the absorbents of the if: cannot be explained. In all other respects, they perform the same ()IfIC'" (‘ here as in other parts of the body. THE ABSORBE TS OF THE DIAPHRAGM. These are so blended with the ahsorbents of the liver, that they are al- ready of course described. I have seen other trunks from the liver perfo- rattng the diaphragm, going into glands on the right and left sides of the pericardium, |