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Show Ofilw particular Distribution if the Absorbent Vessels 2'); tbs dzfi'w'mt Parts ry‘ the Body. d. Nuck's engray; to be inserted into the lumbar glands, already describe a diseased kidney, In s. suSpiciou very me to appear ings of these vessels the pelvis, where its substance, in consequence of stones being contained in the same termination. I have frequently observed the absorbents of the neighbouring parts passing over the renal capsule; and blending with their 160 arising out of the renal glands. Haller's expression is, "Etiam in capsulis renalibus aliqua (lymphatica) visa stint." i in the plexus, and, running nearly parallel to each other, terminated at last artery. lumbar glands, a little to the outside of the origin of the emulgent THE ABSORBENTS OF THE INTESTINES. ing the substance Byniaking a ligature tipon the emulgcnt vein, and Compress blood which had of the kidney, whilst it was in Mu, I have forced the the mouths of the transuded into the cellular substance of that viscus, into I have already said, that Erasistratus had seen the lacteals in kids bin supposed them to be arteries-Haller says, " Yasa lacte plena invenit: sed the blood-ves- selves to have been exceedingly numerous, at least equal to e of the sels. It is in this state I have represented them, in the substanc kidney, in the large figure annexed. the There is also in the kidney another set of absorbents, belonging to pelvis and ureter. .i.. way I‘ll Heuerman says, he has seen at least seven or eight lymphatics arteries naked, I had shrunk, and left the principal branches of the veins and outside of the injected nine absorbents with quicksilver; which run upon the near the trunks blood-vessels, and rainified as they did. \Vhen they came collected into a of the emulgent artery and vein, they were more closely them- absorbents, and thence into their branches; they have then shewn 'I‘ ab‘sorbents. i6; I attempted to inject, if possible, the ttibiili uriniferi with quicksilver from the ureter; for this purpose I inereased the column ofmercury as much as I could; but, instead of filling these vessels, the mercury returned through the lymphatics on the outside of the ureter, and ran in the direction of the inferior lumbar glands. " Trunculos quidem in omni cadavere facile est in vena renali detegerc, per quos ipse ductus thoNon ita facile est racieus non incommode repletnr, in quem se conferunt. in renes dedneere: quare artificium solent addere, venamque ligant, et per arteriam aquam impellunt, aut per venam, per ureterem denique : ant vasa praejudieio claudente oeulos, inanes arterias, ad suam hypothesin pntavit se Videre."-Herophilus also, about the same time, appears to have seen the same vessels, which he distinguishes by the name of the nutrient veins. The same author observes, " Eodein fere tempore Herophilus, magnus in. Clsor, injunioribus pariter animalibus Vidit, venas nutrientes ad gilandulas meseriterii tenders, ibique desinere."-GalCn appears not only to quote, but to admit Erasistratus's experiments.-Haller says " Haec vasa non tota pi‘mtervidit, fatctur eerte in hazdini mesenterii va is lac repereri."- Eustaehius is supposed by some to have delineated the lacteals in his tables; but I am here of Haller's opinion, who says, that they are not lac- teals, but arteries and veins, which are there represented. " Iiustachius lactea vasa quidem non depinxit, etsi ita nuper repetitum est. Dupliecs enim et abruptae linear; qnas dclineat rubra sunt vasa utriusqlie generis, inter plicas mescnterii absconsa."--Asellius, however, was the first who discovered them to be a new species of vessels, and who had anyjust idea certe venosa renis ligant, quo vincula una ea vasa eomprehensa ex sua indole of their office. turgescunt. Denique sola putredo, quze cellulas inllat, etiam vasa lymphatiea patefacit." Haller. cies of absorbents on the intestines, viz. lymphatics and lacteals; that the Some anatomists have supposed that there were two spe- one absorbed lymph, and the other chyle: btit there is not the least foun- dation for such a distinction. The lacteals absorb chyle from the intes- tines, when ehyle is presented to them; and at other times they absorb 'I‘IIIC ABSORBI: TS OF THE RENAL CAPSUL/lfl. The principal veins of the renal capsula: join the emulgent veins,- so other iluids. The laeteals also are divided into two sets, viz. deep-seated and superlicial. The deep-seated are covered by the muscular coats of the intestines, accompany the arteries and veins, ramify exactly as they do, do their principal absorbents join those of the kidnies, and of course have the Y and |