Excerpt from A Treatise on the Functional and Structural Changes of the Liver, in the Progress of Disease: And on the Agency Hepatic Derangement in Producing Other Disorder, With Numerous Cases, Exhibiting the Invasion, Symptoms, Progress, and Treatment of Hepatic Disease in India Several works treating of Hepatic Diseases, and especially those that have appeared since the com mencement of the present century, have furnished instances of Abscess of the Liver without the symp toms usually indicative, either oi antecedent in flammatory action, or of existing suppuration and have thereby shown, that structural changes of this organ are not characterised {by the phenomena which indicate the presence of these lesions in other viscera. This peculiarity necessarily depends upon the organization, the anatomical connexions, the functions, and the physiological relations of_ the liver. In the work I now place before the medical public, I have 'endeavoured to contribute the results of experience acquired during twenty years, in which I have been, almost daily, more or less occupied in treating diseases of this organ, especially as they present themselves in Europeans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.