Liver
the largest gland in the body, weighing about four pounds, and measur- ing in its greatest length nearly 12 inches. It is placed obliquely in the abdomen, on the right side, with its convex surface upward, and the concave downward. It is in relation as to its position with the diaphragm above, the stomach and intestines below, and the right kidney, sometimes extending almost over to the spleen on the left side. It corresponds by its free edge with the lower margin of the ribs. It is divided by fissures into five lobes, two on the upper surface, right and left lobes, and with them three minor lobes on the under surthem three minor lobes on the under sur- face. The liver consists of lobules, a connecting structure, Glisson's capsule, ramifications of the portal vein, hepatic duct, hepatic artery and veins, lymphatics, and nerves, and is inclosed and kept in situ by the peritoneum. The functions of the liver are twofold: The blood of the chylo-poietic viscera previously to its return to the general venviously to its return to the general venthe fluid necessary to chylification; thence it passes into the duodenum and the gall bladder by means of the ducts of the secretion from the follicles in the duct walls.
MARY ASHTON secretion from the follicles in the duct (RICE), an American reformer and lecturer; born in Boston, Mass., Dec. 19, 1821. In 1862 she was appointed agent of the Northwestern branch of the LIVERPOOL movements.
United States Sanitary Commission.
After the war she was conspicuous in and temperance her efforts to promote the woman suffrage Among her popular lectures are: "What Shall We Do With Our Daughters?"; "The Moral Heroism of the Temperance Reform." She was the author of "Pen