Special anatomy and histology: in two volumes (Volume 2).

  • Horner, William E. (William Edmonds), 1793-1853.
Date:
1846
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    The Mucosity discharged from these glands is one of the prin- ciples of animals, and, as is well known, exists also to a great extent in some vegetables. When perfectly pure and fluid, it is white, transparent, inodorous, and insipid. It is insoluble in alco- hol, but soluble in acids. Water forms more than nine-tenths of it, the remainder is mucus, properly speaking, blended with some neutral salts of soda and potash. The mucus which covers the surface of the mucous membranes consists chiefly of separated particles of epithelium mixed with a fluid exudation, while the mucous follicles are said to pour out a fluid holding mucous globules suspended. The mucous membranes are exposed to a multitude of morbid alterations, such as polypus, scirrhus, cancer, phlegmorrhagise or serous fluxes, blennorrhagise or mucous fluxes, inflammation in all its forms, gangrene, ulcerations, and congestions. CHAPTER V. Of the Assistant Chylopoietic Viscera. SECT. I.—OF THE LIVER.* The Liver (Hepar, Jecur) secretes the Bile, and is the largest glandular body in the human frame. It, as mentioned, occupies the whole of the right hypochondriac region, the upper half of the epigastric, and, as it becomes thinner in going towards the left side, it occupies a small space in the right superior part of the left hypo- chondriac region. Its whole superior face is in contact with the diaphragm; on the left it is bounded by the spleen, and below by the stomach, and the transverse colon; behind it, are the vertebral column and the ascending cava. The shape of the liver is like one half of an ovoidal body cut into two in the direction of its long diameter, and having the thick end turned to the right side. It is about ten inches in length by six or seven wide, and weighs from four to five pounds in the * Anat. Atlas, Figs. 339 to 347, inclusive.