An essay on the absorbent vessels : shewing that their action is not liable to be influenced by the artificial agents commonly applied / by Henry Searle.

  • Searle, Henry.
Date:
1823
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Credit: An essay on the absorbent vessels : shewing that their action is not liable to be influenced by the artificial agents commonly applied / by Henry Searle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    That the lymphatics, during their organic preservation, are not susceptible of the in¬ fluence of any agent which will increase or < diminish their function, that their action is uniform or unvarying, and that an aug¬ mented or diminished action of the secretory organs does alone accomplish all the changes usually ascribed to the absorbing vessels: that the latter are as delicate as tubes can be conceived to be; but, since their fabrick must be stronger as their size diminishes, they cannot easily be made to collapse, and are too minute to suffer compression unless by hard angular bodies; that their action depends upon the adaptation of fluids, in a favorable state, to their mouths, whether it be performed by capillary attraction or in any other way. Thus, the lymphatics, without any aug¬ mentation of their own power, are sometimes allowed to absorb more, as when an abscess
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