Practical hydropathy, including plans of baths and remarks on diet, clothing and habits of . extremity, the right side of the head andneck, from the ri^ht lung, and from the corresponding half of the liver and dia-phragm, pour their contents, by a short trunk, mto the conflux of the right sub-clavian and internal jugular veins. This vessel may be called the right lympha-tic duct • it is commonly named the right thoracic duct, though no part of it Lieswithin that cavity. The duct of the left side is not entirely thoracic; for itscommencement is in the abdomen, and its termination in the
Practical hydropathy, including plans of baths and remarks on diet, clothing and habits of . extremity, the right side of the head andneck, from the ri^ht lung, and from the corresponding half of the liver and dia-phragm, pour their contents, by a short trunk, mto the conflux of the right sub-clavian and internal jugular veins. This vessel may be called the right lympha-tic duct • it is commonly named the right thoracic duct, though no part of it Lieswithin that cavity. The duct of the left side is not entirely thoracic; for itscommencement is in the abdomen, and its termination in the neck. Br. Smith on the Secretory Orr/am.—In the construction of the secreting appa-ratus, membrane, then, mav be said to be disposed into four elementary forms,constituting cryptse or vesicles, follicles, caeca, and tubuli. Membrane, disposedinto these elementary forms, constitutes the simple bodies by the accumulationand the varied arrangement of which the compound organs are is no other known element which enters into the composition of themost complex ; organ. -a. Branched cseca, show-ing—1, the caeca, termi-nating in, 2, excretory-ducts which unite toform, 3, a commontrunk. The basis of the secreting c&naia consists, then, of membrane disposed in oneDr other oi the elementary forms. These sccretiug canals constitute a peculiarsystem o organs wholly different from all the other organs of the bod v. TheLorm of these organs, their structure, and their relation to the blood-vessels andnerves, have formed subjects of laborious investigation and of keen controversyluring _ several centuries. The honour of discovering the exact truth on thesepoints is due to very recent researches. Malpighi, an Italian, who flourished at 380 HANDBOOK OF HYDROPATHY. Bologna in the middle of the seventeenth century, was the first to establish aspecial inquiry into the intimate structure of the secreting apparatus. Aftermany years of laborious examination, he arrived at
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