Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen
Chapter II
43 words | Chapter 23
The Erasistratean idea that bile becomes separated out
from the blood in the liver because, being the thinner
fluid, it alone can enter the narrow stomata of the
bile-ducts, while the thicker blood can only enter the
wider mouths of the hepatic venules.
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