Blood-vessels of the Liver. –. The blood-vessels of the liver are the hepatic artery and veins, and the portal vein; the lymphatic vessels are numerous, and the nerves are supplied from the pneumogastric, the phrenic and the hepatic plexus. The liver, therefore, receives two kinds of blood: the arterial, by means of the hepatic artery, and the venous, from the portal vein, from which the bile is principally formed. The bile is a dark golden fluid, of extremely bitter taste, of which 3 pounds is secreted daily. When not used in digestion is stored away in the gall-bladder; a fine view of the location of which we have in this chart, the action of the bile on food, but not fully understood, is necessary for perfect digestion.
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Again there is a reference to 3 pounds daily. So now I’m wondering if the 3 pounds of bile that our bodies are supposedly creating everyday is related to the 3 pounds of food or 3 pounds of liquid that were supposed to be consuming. Maybe it’s half-and-half, 1 1/2 pounds of food and one half pounds of water generate 3 pounds of bile secreted from our liver.
I wouldn’t bet your vacation home Orlando on it. I’m also curious as to whether or not the author actually tasted bile from a liver. In many ways I’m glad I was not a scientist a hundred or 200 years ago. . . .