see ANATOMY, No 96.—Plato, and others of the ancients, fix the principle of life in the liver; whence the Latin proverb, Cogit amare jecur: and in this sense Horace frequently uses the word, as when he says, Si torre jecur querus idoneum. The Greeks, from its concave figure, called it ἰσχες, "vaulted, suspended;" the Latins call it jecur, q. d. juxta cor, as being "near the heart." The French call it foie, from foyer, focus, or "fireplace;" agreeable to the doctrine of the ancients, who believed the blood to be boiled and prepared in it.—Erasistratus, at first, called it parenchyma, i. e. effusion, or mass of blood; and Hippocrates, by way of eminence, frequently calls it the hypochondrium.

LIVER of Antimony. See CHEMISTRY Index. LIVER of Arsenic, is a combination of white arsenic with potash. See ARSENIC, CHEMISTRY Index. LIVER of Sulphur. See POTASH, Sulphuret of, CHEMISTRY Index. LIVER-Wort. See MARCHANTIA and LICHEN, BOTANY Index.