Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e class ofchronic complaints rind some satisfaction in the ready-made diag-nosis -Oh! my liver is out of order. and, though the doctors areinclined to laugh at the diagnosis, the chances are that the peopleare more than half right. When we consider the size and thenumerous important functions of the liver, and its close relationswith all the vital organs, it would seem that if anything goes wrongwith any or them the liver must get out of order too. If it be 376 DISEASES OF LIVEK, STOMACH, AND BOWELS. not deserving of all that is charged to its account, yet it is generally-one of the delinquents; but in justice be it said, it is less the faultof the liver than of the man who carries it, and who puts impossibletasks upon it. In fact the liver does nobly, and compensates formuch that other organs fail to do. It not only supplies bile to takepart in the intestinal digestive processes, but it stands as a filterbetween the absorbent veins of the intestines and the general blood Fig. 95. t 8
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The liver, under side, showing 1, 2, 3, right, left, and middle lobes; 8, gall-bladder; 9, 10, 11, gall ducts; 12, artery; 13, portal vein, which conveys bloodfrom stomach and intestines to the liver; 15-18, veins conveying blood to heart. circulation, receiving all that has been taken up by them, workingsome over into proper shape for use, holding some in its storage fora better time, and eliminating in the bile those products which itwould be unsafe to let pass. So it is a sort of rag-sorter, and a fac-tory for working raw materials into finer form and eliminating thedross. Digestion is not half completed in the alimentary canal; theliver has its turn, and the products of digestion get a final cleansingin the process of oxygenation in the lungs. The liver carries on several important lines of work—more thancan be told here—and as yet physiologists dont comprehend them CHEONIC AFFECTIONS OF THE LIVER. 377 all; but it is pretty certain that one of its most important functionsis to

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