The anatomy of the absorbing vessels of the human body / by William Cruikshank.

  • Cruickshank, William, 1745-1800.
Date:
1790
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Credit: The anatomy of the absorbing vessels of the human body / by William Cruikshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In another place he recommends, after vomiting, the washing the mouth with some acid wine, in order that the mouths of the veins might be con~ stricted, and thus might not take in any of the vomit: E)t Si ra lyAra nXv-rca to s-6i/.x Jtcel rrw (papoyyx oivco onu? ocv tcc ro- f/.xrx TCi)u ax\ [xnSiv £7rixxTX(nrx(T^Y\ onoTx ytvixxi xito £[/,£tuv. In the same manner Galen ascribes the absorption on the surface of the body to veins : 'Xl(T7rfp, Six TUU £(f TO Sip[Jl.X 'Tipx'iUOjXByUV S'o^xrm iHpiVHTi fiU E^W VXV OCiOV CCr[/.uSi? kx) nxTTuooSi^ TnpiTUjxx, y,£TxXxfji.Qxv3(n Ss Etf ixvrxg ex tjs Trspii^ovTl^ ry>xg xip<^ ax oXiym [xoTpxi/. axl tht eVj to zrpog iTTTroxpaTx? Xiyo[Aii/ov wj exttvxv xool iumav ss'iu oXov TO <ru[ji.x. For as the veins, by mouths placed in the skin, throw out whatever is redundant of vapour or smoke; so they receive, by the same mouths, no small quantity from the surrounding air; and this is what Hippocrates “ means, when he says, that the whole body exhales and inhales.” It also appears from Galen, that the ancients believed that the arteries absorbed as well as the veins ; for he says: Arjxov fxiv GW t^ovcrxi xal 7r]/£V[/.x axl Xsttou xl'/xx xxtx t<xi? SixtTTXTuq iXaiii/ xi dpTYiplxi TOV XXTX TW XOiXlxV Xxl TX ’ll/TSpX WSpiB'^O^WOV ^0[JI.0Vf n OvSi oXU^ V TTXVTX- 7TX(Tl (TWBTnCnUVTXi §^X^V. “ The arteries, which contain vapour, in their diastole attract (absorb) air, and the more subtile part of the blood; but they do not at all ab- sorb the fluid found in the stomach and intestines, or but very little.” Mr. Boyle, whose doctrines Haller thinks important on this subject, de- scribes the porosity and absorption of dead matter, and though he does not absolutely reject the perforations made by the extremities of excretory vessels in the skin, described, as he says, by Steno and Malpighi, yet he seems to have known nothing of the absorbing orifices of veins, as described by Hippocrates and Galen, much less had he any idea of the really existing orifices of lacteals and lymphatics. D CHAP.