An account of the nature, causes, symptoms and cure of loosenesses / [W. Cockburn].

  • William Cockburn
Date:
[1710]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the nature, causes, symptoms and cure of loosenesses / [W. Cockburn]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    much to the prefent Purpofe, that there are two Liquors continually poured into the Duodenum from the Liver, and Pancreas: the one by the Duttm communis, and the other by that difcovered by Virtjungm. §. VII. The Stomach, whofe Shape oftbeSts- is too well known to want to be particularly defcribed in this fhort Account, is united with the Duode¬ num at the Pilorus, or its right Ori¬ fice. It has four Coats. One from the Peritoneum, under which lie its Veins in many Branchings from the Porta. The Second Coat is Mufcu- lar, made up of ftrait and circular Fibres properly difpofed for its Con¬ traction. Its third Coat is much fi¬ ner, being altogether Nervous, and becaufe of its exquifite Senfe is calPd Nervofa. The fourth and inmoft Coat confifts of fhort Fibres ftanding per¬ pendicularly upon the Fibres of the Nervous Coat. This inner Coat is very large and full of Wrinkles, and has alfo many Glands: It is calPd the Velvet Coat, by Doftor Willis, from this Difpofition of its Fibres; by which
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