A treatise on the digestion of food / by G. Fordyce, M. D. F. R. S. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and reader on the practice of physic, in London.

  • George Fordyce
Date:
1791
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Credit: A treatise on the digestion of food / by G. Fordyce, M. D. F. R. S. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and reader on the practice of physic, in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 7* ] get a quantity of this juiec collected in the duodenum, becaufe were we to tie up the ductus choledochus fo as to prevent bile from contaminating it, (till there are many other glands in the duodenum which fecrete fluids; and there are alfo, moft probably, exhalents that would likewife throw out a quantity of fluids which would alfo be mixed with it, even if we tied up the pylorus and the duodenum below the entrance of the ductus choledochus, and the fecretory duel: of the pancreas. The other glands which are found in the duodenum we have great reafon to believe are for the purpofe of fecreting fome pecu- liar fluid for fome particular ufe. But I never could contrive any means, nor do I know any have been contrived by others, by which any fueh fluids have been, or can be collected, fo as to be made the fubject of experiment. Therefore our belief of their fecreting a particular juice refts en- tirely upon our not finding parts made in animals and vegetables generally without ufe,