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Quamquam au teno 5 Segnities alvi in ictericis observatur, attamen in obstructionibus alvi pertinacissimis, quin immo 'lethalibus, icterum non vidi.
Eorundem autem vasorum absorbentium ope Icterus, quocunque demum modo natus, post- modurn evanescit, dum bilis particulas, in reticulum cutis mucosum depositas , iterum revellunt.
SCIRRHUS HEPATIS.
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§. XLVI.
i eadem vasa absorbentia hep at -i e a- vel ob debilitatem vel ob aliam caussam v. c. inflammationem contrario modo officio suo omnino non funguntur, lymphamque stagnantem relinquunt, hepar turgebit, increscet, scirrhosumque denique redditur. Diutius autem persistente hepat+s scir- vasa absorbentia ad actionem redeuntia, omne istud inutile avehunt, h!pat±tque volumen
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a) Merito liinc TVill. Saundf.ps Tr. on tlie structure eco- nomy and diseases of tlie Liver London 1795. p. 199* pronuntiat: We know, by a 1 aw of tlie absorbent System, tliat sucli parts as cease to perform tlie office nature intended tbey should do, are coirsidered as useless bodies and are lit subjects for the action of tliese ves- sels : lience 'it is tliat tliere is a greater diminution of substance in tliose scirrMjsities wliicli are of long standing, tiian in sucli as arc of more recent date.
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