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Show I 40 J Fm'lbm‘ Crizg/i/‘mtltiuzz ry' Absorption by HM Lympbatic Vessels. 4i aliam naturam quameunque, experimento hoe anatomico usnm esse, quod in hxdis nupcr lactati, si venter imns et interior membrana dividantur, initio simul seilieet, ac nudatum mesenterium fuerit, arteria: dispomlsfg, id est, aere, ntox plenae lacte conspieiantur. \r'idit igitur omnino lactea haze vasa, nee agnovit tamen, quippe, qua: pro arteriis, deceptus veri quadam inani CHAI'. vii. Lar'rai's start by trim zI/Irit'nls, [mt 2W understood. Ex quibus omnibus satis, opinor, patet, ignorata I M1151" observe, however, that there are some vestiges amongst the an~ similitudine, habuerit. cienn, that prove they had also seen laetcals. passages in Hippocrates, or in the books ascribed to him, from whence it is l'uisse hactenus vasa, qua: primi invenisse profitemur." Galen also says, that Herophilus taught, there were veins arising out of suspected that he knew something ol' the lacteals; for, after he has de- scribed the larger veins in the body; he savs, " Ewi 3% ml olm‘ 1n: M00074 em- on the the intestines, which did not go to the liver, bttt to certain glands H" niesentery, and which were the nutrient veins of these glands. " Hpiiroy In the first place, there are (yon/p TOM/Tl 7(a) PUTSVTEPl/{d $?\\E:z; {WOVVITEV list/0L; lnyEl'UvSl/tx; (£1175 T11 GPEILEK Twl/ {Fri/4011)]! 'M'f. C‘a; iy/l Ti, 733b,]. ri‘mro}.)tzi TE le TZVTQTxt, M 5v 2' rpatp‘rl 5v 7'5 (rm/1.215 spxerm." " There are also in the body, veins from the Stomaclt,lvet‘y manv, and of all kinds, by whose means the food comes into the bodv." I Here I must observe, that Hippocrates, or whoever he, was who wrote this sentence, could not mean the real absorben ‘ no vessels different from arteries and veins are easily to be seen there. The lymphatics of the stoe mach are lound with very great dilficultv, as they never, like the lacteals e. an opaque fluid. 1 I i, Galen contending, that the arteries contain something else than air savs that it was the doctrine of Era-.tratus, that they contained both air and WEPDUDUIMEVM,' Elé‘ To 57104,). id; 'yIXP ital HPO¢L7W€ E‘As'yzw, £5; 05351131337) TH/tzl c'a'ifmrl'roc TEAE'J- 757w "Tu-m; it :pA‘zCeg 7on cth aivrowfiy 57" 7x; Truivz; alvxospop‘szr." of the rnesen- " For, in the first place Nature has made, in the whole imestines, not tery, peculiar veins, destined for the nourishment of the in eerpassing to the liver: for, as I-Ierophiltis says, these veins terminate taitt glandular bodies, whilst all the rest are carried upwards to the porta: (or liver)." From the passages I have quoted, it is evident that the ancients under- not to stood something of the doctrine of absorption: it is also, I think, be denied, that they had seen parts of the real absorbent system, though blood, bttt that they lirst emptied themselves of the air before they took in they did not understand them. the blood. . Tending to the same purpose, he mentions the following expe- tnnent, as from the works of Iit'asistt‘atus: " Eu two; a"; dimlaaTrrSm 75 émyiypoy, u N fé‘lftx 7w TEPITO 3le 7; (1-57? EPIQV £2,672,061; lJEl'V Elf" 6". Syn-l lU-El/ TGIF 153.19%).(Cl/ Efrem 7/.zAzxx-ra; 7r)tr,vpti;." " For on dividing the epigastrium, and along \\itl‘i it the peritonatttm we may clearly see arteries, on the mesentery of suckinq kids, full of mill: " Asellnts seemed to be perfectly aware of this; for he savs, in his book on the Lacteals, " Denique nec minus verum illud est, quod additli, visa (l i 4 , - , ' .. , , ' ‘ ' tnhusdam totinn ltusse, nee tamen cogmta, ltraststratum enim, et ejus t..\\:Cl'd§ intelligo, quem \ ttttsse nostras venas, et sttis ostendisse, ev duebus (‘avnilo‘i‘ ,] ‘Lls maniltsttmt ‘ nnltl Ii est. ‘ Lx ' utroque enim ' ' liqut't i ad proliandtnn i i ‘ s r > r s v i so utn spirituni tn arteriis ‘'tttin" t1, conllucte autcm t>0st sangmnetn, vel '~"'» av;- . *9... ,. C H A P. VIII. Flirt/Jar Corrfirmaiimz Qf {by Absorption if Fluids by the Lymphatic Vessrls. been so fully proved, TIIAT the lacteals absorb from the intestines, has smallest doubt con- that there is not now an anatomist living, who has the but cerning the faCt. They have not only been seen absorbing the chyle, intestines. they take up, very readily, coloured fluids thrown into the animals, at Every experiment Mr. Hunter made on the intestines of living the G |
