Medical anecdotes of the last thirty years. Illustrated with medical truths, and addressed to the medical faculty; but in an especial manner, to the people at large. : With an appendix, and copious index / By B. Dominiceti.

  • Bartolomeo Dominiceti
Date:
1781
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Credit: Medical anecdotes of the last thirty years. Illustrated with medical truths, and addressed to the medical faculty; but in an especial manner, to the people at large. : With an appendix, and copious index / By B. Dominiceti. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Though the force of the heart is not left aftonifh- ing than the power of the ftomach, yet fuch is the nature of our aliment, that, even after it has reached the blood, fome of its particles will again unite • nor will all of them be diffolvcd fine enough by the heart and arteries for the pur- pofes intended. Hence it is, that, being {trained cd by the kidneys, they are difeharged out of the body by urine ; and it follows in the prefent itage of digeftion, as it did in the former, that the ftrsnger the concodtive faculty is in the heart and arteries, the greater quantity is forward- ed into the minuter paffages, and the weaker it is, the mere is evacuated by urine, as before, from the fame caufe, it had been by JiooU We come now to the third and lajt concodfion, which is performed by the fibres, and by thofe mi- nute threads or filaments, of which the folids of the whole body are formed. With the afliftance of his microfcope, Lewenhoeck tells us, he found thefe to be compofed of many hundreds of fibrils, bound together by a fpiral one, and fo very final], that fix hundred of them did not exceed the cir- • * . .* cumference of a hair of the head. Thefe fibres have various ufes in the animal machine j but, as Quincy obferves, the exprefs purpofe of many of them is, to give a proper power to all the glands, for the feparation of the ieveral fluids from the blood.
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