. Annals of medical history. e both he and thosewho stood by him thought that the chylewent through the lacteals to the liver,there to be transformed into blood. Itwas therefore a revelation of far reachingcllects on physiology when John Pequetin 1649 \vorking on a dog, discovered howall the contents of the lacteals gatheredinto one receptacle, rec€])taculu7n here it was carried through thethoracic duct following the blood systemand finally poured through a valve guardedorifice into the left subclavian vein whereit blended with the blood flowing to theheart. Thus the famous anatomis
. Annals of medical history. e both he and thosewho stood by him thought that the chylewent through the lacteals to the liver,there to be transformed into blood. Itwas therefore a revelation of far reachingcllects on physiology when John Pequetin 1649 \vorking on a dog, discovered howall the contents of the lacteals gatheredinto one receptacle, rec€])taculu7n here it was carried through thethoracic duct following the blood systemand finally poured through a valve guardedorifice into the left subclavian vein whereit blended with the blood flowing to theheart. Thus the famous anatomist from - Brcclict in 1628. licilcr from Vcsling in Padua,1634. The thoracic duct had been observed in thesixteenth century in the horse c)f Eustachius hut hadbeen mistaken for a vein. Dieppe correctly disproved that the liverhad anything to do with the formationof the blood, but ser\ed simply to rinsethe blood of the gall just as the kidneycleansed the blood of urine. Pequets dis-coveries which were set forth in a masterlv. The Anatomical Theatre of Thomas Bartholin. little dissertation called Experimcnta novaanatomica quibus encognitum chyle recep-taculum dcteguntur^ were so violent andrevolutionary that he had to championhis views lor a long time against precedentand ignorance. In this controversy Bartholintook a very active part, after he had ac-cepted Pequets teachings in their entirety. Pequets discovery was first otliciall\published in 1651 but Bartholin was first in- Paris, 16^1. 72 Annuls o/ Medical Ilislury formed of it by a letter from his brother Bartholin, whereupon he shortly-afterwards set about to search for the samevessels in the human. He succeeded in find-ing them in the cadavers of two criminals,donated to him by King Frederick III forthis purpose, after which he gave out adescription of them in the form of a disser-tation entitled, De lacteis thoracics inhomine brutisque nupcrrime obscrvatis,Hafnia?, 1652. In this presentation, whichinckided a d
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