. Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease. white tracts in the mesentery. He at first thought they were punctured one, there flowed out a white liquid—the chyle. In atransport of joy he, like Archimedes, cried out Eureka ! He had dis-covered the lacteals. He traced them to the group of mesentericglands still known as the pancreas Aselli. He thought they wentto the liver, and thus failed to trace their true ending. He recognisedthe presence of
. Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease. white tracts in the mesentery. He at first thought they were punctured one, there flowed out a white liquid—the chyle. In atransport of joy he, like Archimedes, cried out Eureka ! He had dis-covered the lacteals. He traced them to the group of mesentericglands still known as the pancreas Aselli. He thought they wentto the liver, and thus failed to trace their true ending. He recognisedthe presence of valves in these vessels and showed that they preventeda backward flow. They were seen by Asellius and others, includingBartholinus, both in living animals, and men newly hanged andchoaked. Bartholinus in his quaint way describes how he saw the milkey veins in the body of Sueno Olai, who was choaked with apiece of tongue, having before eaten and drank plentifully, becauserespiration being hindered by the bit of tongue and his heart beingsuffocated, there was no necessity for the liver to draw any , Bartholinus believed them to pass to the Spigelian lobe ofthe
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