Some account of the Walton water near Tewkesbury ; with thoughts on the use and diseases of the lymphatic glands, in a letter ... / by James Johnstone.
- James Johnstone
- Date:
- [1787?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Some account of the Walton water near Tewkesbury ; with thoughts on the use and diseases of the lymphatic glands, in a letter ... / by James Johnstone. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![[ 4* ] The lymph, and chyle, enters the blood but in a corrupted, crude, unanimalized ftate. I am confirmed in this opinion, by the ex- periments of another excellent Anatomift, Mr. Sheldon, which I fhall quote from his fplendid Hiftory of the Human Ladteal Veffels. In fubjedts, in which the lymphatic glands of the mefentery, were found entirely obftruc- ted, fometimes by a curd-like fubftance, fome- times by calcareous earth, Mr. Sheldon, could pufh injedtions of quickfilver from the veffels, below the obflruefed glands, to thofe above them, though not a {ingle particle of quick- filver, could be made to enter the glands in this obftrudted {fate. In this cafe, the colla- teral branches of the ladteal veffels, which communicated with thofe above, were en- larged, and, had conveyed the chyle into the ladteal dudt. The ingenious Dr. Chefton, found the cavity of the ladteal dudt totally obftrudted for a confiderable length, by an earthy matter, in a man who had a Spina Ventofa of the os ilium. It is probable, the chyle, in this cafe, was conveyed from below, into the ladteal dudt, above ■i](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21522996_0050.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
