An improved system of domestic medicine : founded upon correct physiological principles : comprising a complete treatise on anatomy and physiology, the practice of medicine, with a copious materia medica, and an extensive treatise on midwifery, embellished with over one hundred useful engravings, gotten up expressly for family use / by Horton Howard.

  • Howard, Horton, 1770-1833
Date:
1856, ©1848-1852
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Credit: An improved system of domestic medicine : founded upon correct physiological principles : comprising a complete treatise on anatomy and physiology, the practice of medicine, with a copious materia medica, and an extensive treatise on midwifery, embellished with over one hundred useful engravings, gotten up expressly for family use / by Horton Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTION 10. OF THE LACHRYMAL GLANDS. [These are small glands, situated in depressions of the frontal bone, at the upper and outer angle of the orbit, one in each orbit. The size of the lachrymal glands is about that of the kernel of a peach-stone. They have many excretory ducts, which open into the eye under the upper lid. Their use is to furnish the moisture and tears of the eyes.] SECTION 11. OF THE MESENTERIC GLANDS. [These glands, which are often called mesenteric ganglions, are small knot-like bodies occurring in the course of the chy- liferous vessels, in the mesentery. They are very numerous, but have no regular excretory duct. The lacteals pass through them however. Yet it is not known certainly to what extent the chyle, conveyed through the glands by these vessels, is modified; and hence, as yet, their office is little understood.] SECTION 12. OF VARIOUS OTHER GLANDS. [There are, besides those glands already mentioned, many others, of smaller character, that are described in larger works on Anatomy; but it is deemed unnecessary to treat of them separately in this work. The most important of these are Peyer's and Brunner's glands, which are numerous and very small glands situated, the first upon the small intestines, and the latter upon the stomach and duodenum; the synovial; the sebaceous; the sudoriferous, etc.]