DESCRIPTION OF PLATES AND WOODCUTS.
[PLATE I.]
Represents the condition of the parts in a fatal case of permanent jaundice, in which both the bile, and pancreatic ducts were completely occluded.
(a) Atrophied liver.
(b) Transverse section of the left lobe, showing the mouths of the enormously distended gall-ducts.
(c) Enlarged gall-bladder.
(d) Dilated cystic duct.
(e) Distended hepatic, and common duct.
(f) Ulceration in duodenum, in the situation of the opening of the gall-duct into the intestines.
(g) Pancreas with enlarged head (h), and enormously distended duct.
[PLATE II.]
External surface of the left kidney, denuded of its capsule, in a case of permanent jaundice.
(a) Small specks of bile pigment deposited in the renal tissue, and blocking up the urine tubes.
(b) Small abscesses scattered throughout the tissue of the kidney.
WOODCUTS.
[Fig. 1.] Crystals of glycocholate of soda, mag. 90 diam.
[Fig. 2.] Taurocholate of soda, as found in the form of globules of various sizes.
[Fig. 3.] Crystals of cholesterine.
[Fig. 4.] Crystals of pure tyrosine.
[Fig. 5.] Spiculated balls of tyrosine, from the urine of a case of acute atrophy of the liver.
[Fig. 6.] Globules of leucine.
[Fig. 7.] Cholesterine crystals.
[Fig. 8.] (a) Crystals of cystine.
(b) Hepatic cells, showing entire absence of fat globules.
(c) Caudate or spindle-shaped cells, from epithelial lining of hepatic ducts.