On sour smelling perspiration in acute rheumatism, and its significance as a symptom / by Thomas Inman, M.D.

  • Inman, Thomas.
Date:
[cbetween 1800 and 1899?]
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Credit: On sour smelling perspiration in acute rheumatism, and its significance as a symptom / by Thomas Inman, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The CEsophagus of the Eumiuantia*. By William; Eutiieefobd, M.D., Eesideut Surgeon, Royal lufirinary, Edinburgh ; formerly Demonstrator of Anatomy at the Eoyal CoUege of Surgeons, Edinbui'gh; Px-esideut of the Eoyal Medical Society. [Plate III.] The muscular structure of the oesophagus of the Euminantia seems to have been a subject which, nearly two centuries ago, attracted a considerable share of attention; for, in Peyer's work on the Euminantia, the opinions of no fewer than twelve distin- guished anatomists are quoted in reference to it. In recent times it has not, so far as I have been able to ascer- tain, been re-examined, except perhaps by Mr. Spencer Cobbold (Todd's Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology). I have not been able, however, to meet with any description which at all approaches the truth. I will briefly allude to the opinions of jDrevious authors before giving the results of my own investigations. The first writers on this subject appear to have been Apo- nensis and -^mylianus, who said that the muscular fibres are arranged in two layers, the outer consisting of longitudinal, the inner of transverse fibres. Aquapendentius and Guilandinus accepted this description ; and Galen expressed the opinion, that while the food was swal- lowed by aU the fibres, it was returned to the mouth through the action of the transverse ones only. On the other hand, Fabricius and Pallopius went so far as to say that the Euminant's oeso- phagus contained no muscular fibres at all, but that it was composed of a peculiar tissue met with in rvp other part of the animal. Stenson described the muscular fibres as forming double spirals, the bundles running spirally from one end of the oeso- phagus to the other, forming two layers, which interlace at two raphes; so that the same bundle, while running from one end to the other, lies alternately in the inner and outer layer. * Being a portion of a Thesis /or which a Gold Medal was awarded by the Senators of the University of Edinburgh at the Graduation in 1863. The Thesis was accompanied by numerous dissections and models, which were examined and approved of by Professor Qoodsir and the other Members of the Medical Faculty, and are now in the University Museum. 5