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The entire medical world continous to pay homge to Laennec for his gift of space interpersonal .As if this were not enough he permitted himself to be struck by the frequent appearence ar auto spy of livers that were yellow.Knobbly and hard.This marvel has named cirrhosis,form the Greek word for tawny,Kirrhos.The liver appears yellow because it is fatty hard becuase it is scarred,and knobby becuase the regeneration of liver tissue between the scares produces little mounds or hillocks .It was suspected by Laennec and is known by all the rest of us today,that by far the most common cause of cirrhosis is the consumption of alcohol.