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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![■ [ 73 ] to be the befl, where the {abject itfelf, into the nature of which we are inquiring, cannot be examined by experiment: And, that this is nor the prefent cafe, tlie firit paragraph of the DobloiJs paper evidently fhows. The Dobtor then proceeds to make mention of the Part, from which he thinks we ought to draw an in¬ ference by analogy, with regard to the origin of the lymphatics. By which part, as may from the fubfe- quent page be at laft collected, the Doctor would be underftood to mean the guts and lacteal velfels.—-- Thefe he figures out in the following manner : u There is a certain part of'the human body very u abundantly provided with lymphatics ; in which u part we can adtually force injections through thofe u veflels into a cavity, where their extremities open.’* -The Doctor feems to have forgot what he hinted before relating to the valves of the lymphatics; for, upon account of thefe, this is an experiment in which I never could fucceed* ; nor do I know that any ac¬ curate Author has alleged he ever did. u And from this cavity, continues the Doblor, on u the other hand, we can at p!eafure*introduce a co- u loured liquor into their extremities, and trace it u from fmaller into wider canals; from capillary tubes, c< without valves into large lymphatic trunks, copi- “ onfly furnifhed with them.”—Neither is it proved, that this fecond experiment, of filling the lacleals from the cavity of the inteflines, can be done at pleafitre, or without the affiftance of that energy which life and its remains give.—And that the labteal veifels, where they pafs through the coats of the inteflines, are not without valves is certain ; that they are furnifhed with them from their very beginning, is highly probable. Not, however, to infift further upon what may, per* haps, be thought venial flips from the pen of a Gentle¬ man who does not make Anatomy his particular fludy * The Doblor’s conclufion and indeed the fubftance of K his * See p. 22.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546540_0085.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
