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Show 16 Tbe Ancients maintained, [bat Inhalation in the Human Body was {re/formed 17y Vessels. ellbct on a diseased eye, for example, they apply the remedy not to the eye itsell, but to some distant part of the body, with which it is particularly connected. As the Greeks, however, appear to have understood absorp- tion, and as the Arabians obtained their medical knowledge from them, it becomes much more probable that the practice mentioned was founded either on a knowledge or belief of the absorbing property of the human body ; besides, Avenzoar, one of their physicians, actually proposes in the stricture of the (esophagus (a disease he first described) to put his patients into baths of milk, or other nutritious fluids, to sustain life by the absorp~ Lion of those fluids through the pores of the skin, till he should have time to overcome the stricture. 17 In another place he recommends, after vomiting, the washing the mouth with some acid wine, in order that the mouths of the veins might be con- stricted, and thus might not take in any of the vomit: EX, is 78 5‘11.ng xAtizroci 'ni s‘o'pm Kai T‘HV oipuyyoc aim ads-ripe"), gm); M awn/o; fa, yalust-m: 7w (Misfit xod ‘wndev sumac-refluxed; 5x971 'yl/‘JETWJ aura snug-my. In the same manner Galen ascribes the absorption on the surface of the body to veins : 'Ilmrzp, die; my st; T0 JEN/Lac aspaivoysvwv {windy Expired-i lulu Elgar wary 3/5014 dryidsg X"; "AZ-WW4) E; WEPATZ‘MOL) aAirynv yafpay. [LETWAM‘UAEM/Vzo'i 55 EL; EQUTZC {X 7'3 WEP‘EXOVT@J Viki; dEIP©J 8K xai 737' in To mpg; Iwrazparz; Myst/«ever w; sum/2w Mai sm'vrmv srw 57m; Tc Vilma. " For as the veins, by mouths placed in the skin, throw out whatever is " redundant of vapour or smoke; so they receive, by the same mouths, " no small quantity from the surrounding air,- and this is what Hippocrates CH A P. III. " means, when he says, that the whole body exhalcs and inhales." It also appears from Galen, that the ancients believed that the arteries The Jurit'm‘r also man/funny], Hm! Hi: Inhalation m the Human Body was performed by 'rt‘JSL'ZS. absorbed as well as the veins ; for he says: AT/LLDV [um at} 3xwexi xai msdpx xtzi )tmm tiff/"x X94706 194i; dixa'rac/a'si; E'Axsw iii OTFTZFiZ Hlt‘Pot RATLS and Galen not only asserted, that all parts of the body inhalt-(l, tht ' also taught that this inhalation was performed by vessels; that both veins and arteries inhaled. Hippocrates Says, EM." (m; 7155570 new. (are not Epw‘umiu mat 70713» 50' 'r'Z/u xaiAmv-n apex/‘4 inf/ax; Tm Gfl/U'KV dim Twit pkg)»: " FOI‘ tltC bOdV absorbs from " the meats and drinks in the stomach-similar fluid attracting similar, " through the medium of the veins." And in another place still more particular, 10 * s not the least room to doubt his meaning, Kai yup til omégg, all 2x 17,; vadv©vg mi my E‘rTEflwv, EL; (34‘ EuAM'ys-rxi Ta. curiae, mat 70c were, muddy 05p- PJZD‘}; 741:7") E).X80'l 771713") KB" 'yWETal TO AEWTDTOCTCV' Xfiwprcj, Mair TU U'yFéTMTOV' 51/ 1'0?!le EVTEPOIU'K TOAD-i TO 35 WWXUTAZTOV "UT"! "afraxgi- K175}. " I‘m the veins of the stomach and intestines, in which our meat and " drink are collected, as soon " these are heated (digested) attract the " thinnest and most liquid partfiiut the thickest part is left, and becomes " fetter in the loner part of the intestines." I In 70'! KdTa T7lyV XOIZlaV >154) T" Ell/T5934 WEPlEXO‘VIvsl/QV XUIUJ‘HI, BflIOUa‘E 2A5); 71 "(XI/TM- 7rr/.c'i a'uysmmr'EV-raci ngxzi. " The arteries, which contain vapour, in their diastole attract (absorb) " air, and the more subtile part of the blood; but they do not at all ab- " sorb the fluid found in the stomach and intestines, or but very little." Mr. Boyle, whose doctrines Hallcr thinks important on this subject, describes the porosity and absorption of dead matter, and though he does not absolutely reject the perforations made by the extremities of excretory vessels in the skin, described, as he says, by Storm and Malpighi, yet he seems to have known nothing of the absorbing orifices of veins, as described by Hippocrates-and Galen, much less had he any idea of the really existing orifices of lacteals and lymphatics. |