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"ref": "1841, Changes of the blood in disease, page 21",
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"ref": "1926, The Therapeutic Gazette, page 168",
"text": "For man and animals the liver receives the food for the body: the liver is the principal organ of elimination; the liver appears to play the role of cytoplasm; it appears to be the negative pole of the organism, playing always with the positive pole—the brain.",
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