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Title: On food and its digestion: being an introduction to dietetics
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Brinton, William, 1823-1867
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Publisher: London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Network of hepatic cells with its capillaries, magnified 3o0 diameters.the Pig.—After Koellikt r. lary network; the vessels of which, of large (-^oVo inch ;size, and close proximity to each other, converge tounite in a vein (intralobular, Xos. 5, 6, Fig. 38, andc9 Fig 40), which occupies the axis of the lobule, tothe several projections of which it gives one or two shortbranches. These intralobular veins open into larger veins(sublobular\ upon which they are mostly seated by theirbases (Fig. 38), and which converge to form, by their succes-sive unions, the hepatic vein; which joins the vena aand thus empties its blood into the right side of the heart. HEPATIC CELL-GKOWTH. 189 The interstices of this capillary network appear to beoccupied exclusively by a mass of cells (Figs. 41, 42.); Fig. 42.
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Vciw, from nature, of the network of hematic cells, and smallest interlobularducts from the human subject. Diagram of the connection between thecells and ducts. After Koelliker. Magnified 350 diameters. a, Interlobular duct, b, The hepatic cells, c, Interspaces corresponding to capillaries. which constitute the parenchyma of the liver, and are somoulded around the walls of the capillaries, as to fill up theirmeshes, each cell being in contact with capillaries by somepart of its surface. The cells themselves, about -py^o-thinch in diameter, are polyhedral or angular (often some-what flattened) as though from close packing; they arebounded by a distinct wall, and contain a nucleus, (usuallyenclosing one or more nucleoli), and a viscid yellowishgranular liquid, in appearance closely resembling bile. The 190 DIGESTION. fatty granules or globules, and the yellow colouring mattersalso often found in these cells, seem to be mainly attribut-able, to disease or commencing decomposition. The re

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