| The cardio-vascular system comprises of organs of | | | | (the heart) to the various parts of the body, blood |
| the body concerned with the manufacture, storage | | | | carries the various waste products like carbonic acid |
| and circulation of the blood, namely, the liver, the heart | | | | gas (exhaled from the lungs), urea and poisons ejected |
| and the arteries. Blood is the most vital fluid in the body | | | | by the kidneys through the urine. Blood is a general |
| and any reduction in its quantity or interruption in, its | | | | medium of communication between the organs which |
| supply or lack of balance among its constituents, as in | | | | are chemically interdependent: it carries to the stomach |
| anemia, gives rise to many diseases, some of which | | | | the materials for the gastric juice, to the muscles the |
| may prove fatal in the long run. | | | | ferments formed in the pancreas and absorbs |
| The human body receives its nutrition from the food | | | | secretions needed for the general purposes of the |
| which is digested in the stomach and turned into blood. | | | | body, like those of the thyroid and the suprarenal |
| Blood courses through the body and restores the | | | | glands. |
| tissues and replaces the energy which we lose while | | | | Liver and Its Disorders |
| we use our body. It is being constantly manufactured, | | | | The liver is the largest gland in the body and one of |
| purified and replaced. | | | | the five major organs which are vital to life. A |
| The heart pumps the blood into the various organs | | | | malfunctioning of the liver may not become apparent |
| from which it returns to the heart and from there goes | | | | immediately, unless of course, the flow of blood |
| to the lungs for oxygenation to be reused. The blood, it | | | | through it is impeded or the bile ducts are dosed. It has |
| should be noted, makes a complete circuit of the body | | | | an innate vitality of its own and if it becomes |
| in 15 seconds flat. | | | | disordered it fights off the disease on its own. But |
| Its constituents-the red and the white corpuscles and, | | | | once it becomes diseased, it takes a long time to go |
| of course, the plateletshave their own functions to | | | | back to normal. The liver is a chemical factory which |
| perform. The lack of the red blood corpuscles leads to | | | | produces heat by its own chemical processes. It |
| anaemia since the allotted function of the RBCs (red | | | | secretes biles (salts and pigments) and is vital to the |
| blood corpuscles) is to carry oxygen. The WBCs | | | | assimilation of fats in the body. It is also a storehouse |
| (white blood corpuscles) are the soldiers provided by | | | | of the substances necessary for the proper |
| nature to fight infection. The platelets help in | | | | functioning of the bone marrow which plays an |
| coagulation of the blood in case of injury-people | | | | important part in the manufacture of red blood |
| whose blood is dificient in platelets ate always in | | | | corpuscles. It also manufactures the fibrinogen of the |
| danger of dying of haemorrhage, because once | | | | blood, stores iron and copper, produces peparin, |
| bleeding starts it will not stop since the blood will refuse | | | | detoxicates the noxious products made in the |
| to coagulate. The fluid part of the blood (plasma) is the | | | | intestines and absorbed into the blood. Glycogens |
| carrier of salts and proteins which nourish the tissues. | | | | (carbohydrates processed by the body) are also |
| In its journey from the pump that nature has provided | | | | stored in the liver. |