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. . . .

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• How is Malaria carried by the Mosquito
  
  

  How is malaria carried by the mosquito?-best imagined that a man has returned from some malarial country takes up his abode in a healthy, yet mosquito infested village.  This man may be fairly over his attack yet he still suffers from an occasional chill with fever.  He has no screens in his house, nor have his neighbors, unless previously told to follow such cautions.  A female as Cato are several attack in and stuck his blood which contains these tiny parasites.  The mosquito takes millions of the little parasites which then undergo a development in the body of the insect and can be seen microscopically in the stomach and intestine, and the small glands in its mouth, which secrete saliva.  Now let us follow the mosquito and see what harm it can cause any community.  It flies through a screen door or window and lights on the arm, etc., of an unsuspecting neighbor.  Inviting a person the mosquito ejects or gives off its saliva into the womb to eight in diluting the blood of a person which it has been, as the blood is too thick to be sucked up to the tiny tube in the bill (proboscis) of the mosquito.  In this way the bite of the female mosquito whose body contains a small animal error sites which cause malaria, as by means of the saliva into the blood of the person during the act of sucking up the blood.  Does the mosquito sucks up the blood of the individual and in exchange injects into his blood the saliva contains parasites.  These parasites multiply in the blood of the person bitten and produce poisons which give rise to the chills, fever, aching limbs, etc., known as malaria, malarial fever or “odd,” (chills and fever).  It can readily be seen how malaria will spread when individuals in the community have millions of parasites in the blood, and at the same time as Cato’s are carrying around in their bodies, millions of the same living germs which they sought from the blood of the infected person, develop and inject them into the blood of every person they bite.

  You will notice as you read the follow on sections covering Mosquitos and Malaria that the book is big on talking about where they live, but not terribly practical on how to actually deal with the insects.  There are more references to different possible breeding places than there are gears in a Patek Gondolo watch.

• The Pelvis
  
  

  The Pelvis.  — The pelvis is an irregular-shaped basin, formed by the hip bones and the pubic bones in front.  In the upper and back part is the foot of the spinal column, consisting of a wedge-shaped bone called the sacrum.  It is observed firmly planted between the wide spreading hip bones of the pelvis, like the keystone of an arch, and gives a strong support to the burden above.

  Like the section referring to the composition of the chest this section has very little to remark upon other the fact that it has very little to remark upon and so I’ll leave it at that.  To certain extent I feel like I’m speeding through the sections is there just basically describing an image.  In the first chart this was a little bit more entertaining, however I know from looking for in the book that there’s much more entertainment to be had in future pages.

  The section does refer to ‘hip bones’ as opposed to the modern compound word spelling of hipbones.

• Illustrations & Charts
  
  

  Under this category of images we will create several subsections providing access to the images from the Library of Health.  it will be our goal to name the page is of this website with the same name utilized in the book.  Typically a group of images in the book is referenced as a “chart” it is also given a numerical ordering such as “chart 1″.

  We will attempt to follow the same organizational approach as we go through the book and hopefully we won’t run into a change in the method used to label the images.