A treatise on the management of female complaints, and of children in early infancy / [Alexander Hamilton].

  • Alexander Hamilton
Date:
1792
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Credit: A treatise on the management of female complaints, and of children in early infancy / [Alexander Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PWTRKRODUCTYON. ». The bladder is probably ftimulated to contrac 4in two different ways, by being diftended, and by athe acrimony of ‘the urine; for when itis very “full the defire for making water is urgent, and this-alfo often happens when'there is only a fmall quantity of high coloured acrid urine. «Distripution of the Broopd in the BELLY. Sher Great Artery, efter having penetrated the wnidriff, “runs down along the lete fide of ‘the dack-bone tillit arrives at othe lowelt bone of the true fpine, where it divides into twe branches, which divareate as'they go down, and form a pret. ‘ty large angle. In its courfe it fends branches to - ‘the ftomach, fpleen, liver and inteltines, and alfo- ‘to the other contents of the belly. Each of ‘the ‘branches into which it divides at the lower part is fubdivided into two, which are fent to oppofite ‘fides of the bafon; one of thefe on each fide call- ed Aypogafiric, {applies with blood the contents: -of the bafon, ané fome of the neighbouring parts externally. The other pair goes out under ‘the paflage made by the mufcles at the top of the’ thigh, to furntfh the lower extremities. | The Great Vein lies exa@ly in the fame direc. tion with, and on the right fide‘of the Great Ar-’ tery 4 it receives the blood from the organs of urine and other contents of the bafon by feparate branches. The'blood of the ftomach, fpleen, and inteftinal canal, is carried to the liver, whete it is taken up by ‘a vein which conveys it to the Great Vein immediately under the road at the sth fide. : ‘The bloed of the organs of @igeftion, therefore, cee a double purification before it is carri- Ie ed
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