Medical commentaries. Part I. Containing a plain and direct answer to Professor Monro jun. Interspersed with remarks on the structure, functions and diseases of several parts of the human body / [William Hunter].
- William Hunter
- Date:
- 1762
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Credit: Medical commentaries. Part I. Containing a plain and direct answer to Professor Monro jun. Interspersed with remarks on the structure, functions and diseases of several parts of the human body / [William Hunter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![might be demonflrated either by blowing into the artery, or b}r te making a ligature on the emulgent vein in a living dog; for in each t( way they will be diftended : but you obferved at the fame time, f( that thefe experiments were no proofs of their being continued from “ arteries, as the cafe might be the fame as in injecting.—You pro^ “ duced before us, a preparation of the T^ejiis from a horfe, in which the “ artery was injected red, and the lymphatics dried hollow, diftended “ with air, which you told us had been thrown into them by inflating “ the cellular membrane.—I think I could recolledt fome few more “ particulars upon this fubjedt ; but I fhall give nothing from memory, “ not caring to trull to it, at this diflance of time. What I have here “ faid is a mere relation of fadts, extradled from the notes I have taken “ at your ledtures.” Dr. D’Urban, in his letter to me from Richmond, Nov. 12, 1757, fays, “ I have been looking into the notes 1 made from your ledtures, (< in the beginning of the year 1749, and—fhall tranfcribe the para^ “ graph juft as it flands. “ Lymphatics] A preparation of the lymphatics of a horfe’s T'ejizs % “ —I do not believe them continuations of the feriferous arteries, but X( abforbent veffels placed in every interface of the body, which take up ** any fluid, thrown into the Abdomen or any other cavity ; as is feen “ from daily experience. I have injedted the fpleen, which is full of (i lymphatics, with the mof fubtile injedtions, filled every branch of (t the artery or vein, when after tying the vein, and forcing the in- (C jedtion till the vefiel burf, immediately on the extravafation the “ lymphatics became filled. This I have tried more than once, with “ the fame fuccefs. Hence I conclude they are not a continuation of, nor have any communication with the arteries C 2 Dn 'method in a dog, when the Teftis was not feparated from the body, and traced them all the way up to the thoracic du£t. * The preparation above-mentioned, where the lymphatics are filled by blowing into the fubftanceof the Tejits, and which 1 have generally produced at my lectures both as a fpecimen of thofe veflels, and as a proof of the dodtrine. The reader is defired here to obferve, that I had then a preparation, and fhewed it, of the lymphatics of the TcJUs filled in this man¬ ner ; and Profeflor Hamilton had from my brother a preparation of the lymphatics filled by extravafation. But, notwithftanding all this, Profeflor Monro has the modefty to aflert, (pag. 43.) that “ Dr. Hunter never had made any fuch experiments or preparations, nor “ even imagined the thing poflible.” f This gentleman (Dr. D’Urban) fludied at Edinburgh, in the winter 1^52-3, . after having attended my ledtures, was acquainted with Alexander Monro jun. then a fludent, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30409196_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
