Observations, anatomical and physiological, wherein Dr. Hunter's claim to some discoveries is examined / [Alexander Monro].
- Alexander Monro
- Date:
- 1758
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations, anatomical and physiological, wherein Dr. Hunter's claim to some discoveries is examined / [Alexander Monro]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![CONCLUSION FROM THE TWO IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING SECTIONS. A FTER what I have made appear, any perfon, jT'fa rely, who will take the trouble to perufe my Eilay upon the valvular lymphatic veffels, from which occafion was taken for railing the prefer]t difpute,muit be ailoniOicd at the following fentence ; ” That two w perfons engaged in the fame lludies Ihould light on the fame difeovery, is no ways improbable ; but that a that they fhould fupport it by a number of argil- a meats and experiments intirely the fame, tho? it u be poffible, is furely fo improbable, that I could u wife Dr. Monro had, for his own fake, mention- ed me (Dr. Hunter) in a marginal note (e').'9 The arguments ufed by Dr. Hunter have been al¬ ready numbered and his title to them explained; his experiments indeed have been fhown to be without number ; and the agreement of his conclusion with the preinifes has not been palled over in filence. The general plan I have followed in my Effay is, Firft, to* examine what conclufions one would draw, from conlidering only the lfruclure and appearances of the lymphatic velfels, with regard to their origin. After this, I have examined the experiments brought in fup¬ port of the common opinion ; beginning with thofe which were univerfally believed to be dired proofs of lymphatic arteries. And after fhowing, that, by not attending to all the circumftances of thefe experiments, but by drawing a conclulion from the event of them in general, an opinion had been adopted without due grounds; which fair reafoning, upon them and other experiments ufed in fupport of it, feemed to refute : I have then, and then only, offered arguments which prove that the lymphatics in many places of the body are (e) Dr. Hunter in Cr. 2?. p. 439.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546540_0074.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
