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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![[ 4J ] ' above the obffruftion, by one or more col la* teral anaftomoling branches, wliich are every where numerous in the lymphatic veflels, and, frequent in the ladteal du£l itfelf. This-being a provihon of nature, for fecuring more •.certainly, a regular conveyance of the chyle :inta the hlood veflels. But, I remember a melancholy cafe, which ffiews the thoracic du£l, fo me times is ohftruc- ted in a fatal degree ; a young lady, high in Tank, beautiful in perfon, and amiable in difpofition ; had a fwelling in the neck, which extended itfelf under the left clavicle, and,, .there obftructed the entrance of the thoracic duel into the fubelavian vein fo completely, .as to render her incurably dropfleal in every part of her body. What I have now offered, conceminsr the lie of the glands, belonging to. the lymphatic [ffyftem, will, I apprehend, derive fupport from the late difeoveries, and, will be found lufeful in the treatment of difeafes of the I glands. Medicines taken into the ffomach, and, infixed with the chyle, are, indeed, in the I direct channel, to reach the difeafed glands the mefentery. . G 2 But](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21522996_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
