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Show Vriscls Oy'tbc particular Dis/ribu/imz (3/1th Absorbent i7; i/JL' different I'm-is qf the Body. distinct, and scattered along the mewhich are, at three months, perfectly . _ \ClitCI'y. adeo in fretu sextimestri audito- \i'erncr and Feller say, " Drclincurnus ." ribus vasa laetea exhibuisse dicitur " in foitu, . '1in‘ than it appears; and there is more surface in a foot ofit, perhaps, than in 164 who had seen ,them,-id‘ Haller quotes Veslingius, and others o septimanarum-ii cm‘deayna es aut‘oct sex infante in nato, homine nuper et eisternam 1n fretu v1 1. albi,"--and then adds, " Ductum tlioracicum es the parts of the youngest Riolan says, in the chapter where he compar ulus mucosa pituita plenus, tpire \ isihle foetus with the adult body, " Ventric 165 the same quantity of the colon. The cliicfabsorption of the eliyle being from the jejunum, may make it necessary that its absorbents should be larger than those of the colon. The great intestines, however, are said sometimes also to contain cliyle. \Vinslow demonstrated this to the Aca- demy of Sciences: " On la peut établir en general par les veines lactées des gros intestins: j‘en ai démontré pltisietn‘s HES-visiblcment et tt‘és-distinctement at l'Académie Royale des Sciences, dans le colon de l'homme, ct routes plcines de ehyle. Feu M. Mery de la meme Academic, qni étoit spirits This fluid in my experiments coagulated With toujours tres-difficile stlr les observations d‘autrui, étant aloi's présent, ei, ble lymph secreted by the'aiteiics ofwine, andis most probably the eoagula ayant vti qu'avec le bout cle nion doigtje poussois nniforniément (l‘espace mm est cltylui‘," &c. into chyle.-Milh itself of the stomach, and may afterwards be converted ted into chyle, as we see in is coagulated by the stomach before it is conver in the stomachs of suck- the vomitings of sticking children, and as we find in the child's intes- found um meconi --The death. ing calves, opened after the bile, then, and in the tines at three months is light green, the colour of es Haller saw in the duel adult often-the peristaltic motion of the intestin render it probable that the to tends this ll tion-a incuba after day on the i4th way as after birth, and that foetus in utero is in part nourished in the same our existence. the absorbents are equally necessary in every period of en espace dans ces vaisseaux du colon la liqueur blanche qu'ils Contenoieut, en parut d‘abord assez content,- inais pour s‘en assurer dai'antage, il me fit en meme temps, et en sa presence, onVrir un de ces‘ \‘aisseaux avce la pointe (l‘une lancette, en tirer un goutte de la liqueur, et la inettre sur l‘ongle de mon pence,- ce qui le contenta eiitieretnent." this.--I have never seen it. Haller also asserts I by no means assert, that the absorbents of the great intestines do not absorb something from their contents, as \\'Cli as those of the small intes- tines; though I have seen solid fzeees in the beginning ofthe colon. The fzeccs are, however, certainly harder in the rectum than in any other part of the great intestine, and particularly so in Costive habits ofbody, where THE ABSORBENTS OF THE GREAT INTESTINES. they have remained for a long time; but the farces could not become transverse Those from the czecum, from the colon of the right side, and more solid any other way than by an absorption of the thinner part. Copious described, at or arch of thC colon, join the trunks of the lacteals, formerly (ultra dear/m : lthfL‘Il called be may these y; mesenter the of root the near colon, form at last a whilst those belonging to the sigmoid flexure of the or having passedtheir trunk or trunks, which terminate in the lumbar glands, and nutritious glysters have been given by the rectum, which never have re- turned in that form. 'l‘hough I have said, that I knew of no case where patients had been nourished by glysters longer than three weeks, there are cases on record of their having supported the body for forty days, or duct itself. own glands, go immediately into the lower end of the thoraeie than those smaller n proportio in seem intestines great the of s absorbent The not so great of the jejunum; and they really are so; but the diflerence is even three months. Glysters :of turpentine give the urine the smell of violets; and the Peruvian bark has cured fever, exhibited in the form of Though we call them great intestines, (pram credas in tetra csse, tanien per glysteres ad sanguinem pcnetrat, fe- as at first sight may be supposed. eonon account of their larger diameter, yet the jejunum, from the valvula lon‘gcr times three reality in atube forms surface, internal its on niventes tian glyster, when the stomach would not retain it. " Vis cortieis l'eruviani, bresque tollit, eoque eventu Andrianus Hclvetius plurimos imprimos pue- ros sanavit." Haller.-The Peruvian bark may, however, Cure the fever without being absorbed. I Though |
