A treatise on struma or scrofula, commonly called the King's evil. In which the impropriety of considering it as an hereditary disease is pointed out : more rational causes are assigned and a successful method of treatment is recommended / By Thomas White.

White, Thomas (Surgeon)

Date:: 1784

Credit: A treatise on struma or scrofula, commonly called the King's evil. In which the impropriety of considering it as an hereditary disease is pointed out : more rational causes are assigned and a successful method of treatment is recommended / By Thomas White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$[ -19 ] , \ % / Chyli, and Thoracic DuQ, which empties itfelf into the left Subclavian vein, unites with the refluent blood, and is at once admitted into the general circulation; then being carried from the heart by the arte¬ ries to every part of the body, is returned by the veins, and the refiduum of the food is paffed through the alimentary canal: this, in a few words, is the procefs, by which the human body is nourilhed and renovated. % The La&eals, I obferved, were Lym¬ phatics ; there are alfo Lymphatics in every part of the body, which, like the veins, go from the extremities towards the cen¬ tre : they are infinitely more valvular than the veins, and have a greater num^ ber of intervening 1 glands, which have and when it has paffed the Diaphragm, which is the par¬ tition between the upper and lower part of the body, it is termed Thoracic Du£L * Whether gland is a proper term, or whether it be convolutions of the Lymphatics, is of no importance to the prefent fubjefL I have preferred the word gland, as the term molt frequently in ufe. different$