Sketch, liver and biliary by unknown artist Figure 2 from table II showing the placement of the liver and biliary in the patient in relation to the abscess. Subject: Physiology / Medicine Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Of an obstruction of the biliary ducts, and an impostumation of the gall-bladder, discharging upwards of 18 quarts of bilious matter in 25 Days, without any apparent defect in the animal functions'. Read to the Royal Society on 14 June 1733. [1733]