本文叙述了肝病研究之进展过程,並指出必須了解细胞內之病变机轉,否則难以獲得合理的治療。今后应根据近代臨床病理的研究:如电子顯微鏡、組織化學、免疫細胞化学及生化学等方法而細心的观察病人。新的知識指出:綫粒体能供給細胞之能量,多种中毒如四氯化炭中毒特别損伤此种小器官,放射性物質、缺血及飢餓等,亦均可損 This article describes the progress of the study of liver disease, and pointed out that it is necessary to understand the mechanism of intracellular lesion, or difficult to obtain reasonable treatment. In the future should be based on modern clinical and pathological research: such as electron microscopy, histochemistry, immunocytochemistry and biochemical methods and careful observation of patients. New knowledge points out that mitochondria are able to supply the energy of cells and that various poisonings such as carbon tetrachloride poisoning are particularly damaging to such small organs, radioactive substances, ischemia and hunger, etc.,