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Francis Kiernan “The Anatomy and Physiology of the LIver” extracted from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the Year MDCCCXXXIII Part II London: Richard Taylor 1833 We are pleased to offer for auction with no reserve the first edition of the first accurate account of the minute anatomy of the liver. Moreover, Kiernan was the first to describe what he termed the classic liver lobule. He portrayed porcine lobule cross-sections as hexagonal in shape with the hepatic vein in the center and portal tracts at the corners of the hexagon. For this work on the anatomy of the liver Kiernan was awarded the Copley Medal by the Royal Society in 1836. This work is rare. We could not locate any other copies for sale on the Internet. Francis Kiernan (1800-1874) was an Irish anatomist and physician. He was trained in medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London and was elected a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1825. “Modern investigation into the structure of the liver may be said to have commenced with Mr. Kiernan….At this time the compound microscope was so imperfect an instrument that it was but little used, and Mr. Kiernan, like his predecessors and most of his contemporaries, worked chiefly with the aid of an ordinary lens of good magnifying power. The liver-cells, the agents in the secretion of bile, and concerning which volumes will yet have to be written, were at that time scarcely k ...

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