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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    u organs. It will be necessary to arrange them into two classes:— One, including the Head and the Tnink, being the globe and largest cylinder, each having a large cavity, and containing soft and yielding substance: the viscera. The other, including all the Limbs, being cylinders, whose cavities are small, and con- taining hard and unyielding substance: bone. Each of these cylinders, as well as the globe, may be esteemed a series of others, encasing each other successively, the external of which is the integument, a strong and dense investment, whose office is to confine, within a proper sphere of action, a vast num- ber of organs; it is, therefore, endowed with great resisting power. The body is accordingly composed of an indefinite number of elastic and flexible rings more or less circular. It is plain, that if an external force be