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Show pup-«.vm.ym....-.fi.wm.w , NM, _ , .16 n Afar/Judy u/' (lisrnzw'iug Ilia Lyliiy'ilutlirs and me'uulx. Afuflmjr (y discovering lbc Lymplm/ics and Lac/MIX. \Verc one to set about discovering the lymphatics of the liver in this way, he mus‘. inyeet previously the hepatic artery, then the vena portarum, then the venzc cavze hepatica", and other smaller veins entering the eava, but. not properly branches of the former: when he has done this, he must also inject the. duetus hepatitis, and its branches the pori biliarii, before he could infer that any new ve sel filling,T itself with air, in consequence of ma~ eeratiun ol‘ the visetts in water, was a lymphatic. I must, however, ob- serve, that on the extremities this method Cannot be employed, as the 47 them as iii the vessels, and made them so distinctly visible, that they drew if they had been injected with mercury. not Instances of this kind have neve occurred to me, and I should mesentery oli easily trust to any drawings made in this way; even on the with, 1 children, where indurations of the glands are so frequently met cause.- have never seen the lacteals on the intestines visible from this som‘tirnes seen filled, There is a disease of the laeteals in which they are valves prev-rut us from injecting the. veins, unless on some luCls‘y' occasion, of their as it were, with cheesy matter, but this, like the simila‘ all'ection hut cer- glands, is not from coagulated or inspissated and induratt‘d chyle, \\'ltt‘I'C they are now and then injected front the arteries, as continued but tellected tithes, and in tl e course of the circulating blood. The lymphatics are with more difficulty discovered on the fore-arm and le than in most other parts. Here the choice of the subject is a very ma- and white in glands tainly from scrophttlous pus, \\‘l\lCll is very often solid at a great distance from the rottt of the chyle. of injecting and dis- In the upper part of the arms and legs, the business always to be found on covering the lymphatics is easier. A gland is almost terial Circumstance: there should be no fat in the limb,- it should be dron- the fore-part of the internal condyle of the humerus. 'J'hts gland may be hrane, the vessels are very well seen; but they are not sufficiently sup- quicksilver, maybe in; punctured with a laneet, and the tube, filled with well, the tube may be troduced by this opening; or, which succeeds equally ithout any pre\ ions punt‘pushed into the substance of the gland at once, tt ported: they roll under the point oi' the lancet, and escape the attem us to ture by the lancet. puncture them; or, if the. puncture has been ellectcd, they glide Iaway :1!anx thclpomt of [11m Inyefcting tube. I have seen sortie hundred vessels In the brachial artery. these the deeper seated absorbents, which rttn \tith the letnoral artery may the lower extremity, the absorbents, which rttn with The in the ham. be injected in the same manner, from glands situated in this (ted _' i be may lungs, and heart the from nzphatics, trunlts of' the ly szt‘al, and yet not too muclt so. to prevent ottr seeing them. ttcx t‘ennty, \t iere, The {at hides the lymphatic vessels so ‘as If there is much water in the cellttlar incur. or the reasons I have ‘ust 0' 'A (Indy able to inject a few. ' ' \Vht‘n a proper lime liaiskllcelttliitliccdifdl . , , . ‘ . ' rciiihédl151::if,;,:":,,~mj,cmg:,:i ther foot, orr back of the hand, and, ' by treme branches (3' the hurt whine): il‘tl:§(ll'bl‘ filcbe‘dhc brow" "u'ld m {he ex- vcnt it from beintr drove Ioti and the (:ng1 h-mChCS: the hgami" PIC- t'lose by the ligature. The ititenuments ' i" l :‘naduany become dmcndOd leave the ahsui'bents \thich lie itiimedi'tt life "1"", Lo be 'I‘C‘VHOVCd) 5" as ‘0 may then be made ill the vessel‘ ' l ‘ (‘ikliilliimunh mimic Puncmms rllglti puncture in a \essclnoniih‘eiii;:12?thth may be 1'}J?C[C(l- 'Il‘mm otbents running the whole lenGthlof tl‘ictlixlt) I have "UCCKCd'HMCCD in cases of induration of the lvmpliatie l'uid‘ ilgil * It has 17mm Sf‘ldx mat have liittnd 0'Ylgnlm" lvm )1] M,"the lttnphatics . x . of.. the arm in 1:;11(1E:t:la(i:(llla t, t i , \vni ttcir some own , 1 , neu not being able to get through the diseased glands, stagnated In "‘..-~'«.v.-.~. * .. 7 *MJme. ' rung" The mercury thus Fills the cells of the gland, and from of the trachea, way, from glands about the root of the lungs and fore-part from glands very The absorhents of the neck, in this way also are injected, proces . 'l‘he trunk of the constantly found on or behind each mamillary y injected in the same successfull most is duct, thoracic the system itself, the mesentery, on the bodies ol‘ way, that is, tither from some gland on ligament. the lumbar vertebra), or on the inside of l'aupart‘s lymphatics, the best resemble much very and injected, are vessels Vv'hen or are not lymphatics, is to trace method of determining; whether they are if they terminate in them, in the them to the nearest lymphatic glands: usual ntanner, they are lymphatics. be determined by attend- The course of the. absorbents may sometimes an erysipelas, for ex- when ons; inllammati ing to the progress of cutaneous ample, |