An essay on glandular secretion; containing an experimental enquiry into the formation of pus: and a critical examination into an opinion of Mr. John Hunter's, 'that the blood is alive!' / [James Hendy].

  • Hendy, James.
Date:
1775
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Credit: An essay on glandular secretion; containing an experimental enquiry into the formation of pus: and a critical examination into an opinion of Mr. John Hunter's, 'that the blood is alive!' / [James Hendy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / 88 AN ESSAY ON to a demonftration, that pus is a fecretion, depending totally on the fuppuratory in¬ flammation, and alfo that in fiich inftances it muft be formed by the exhalant arte¬ ries. Finding then, that the exhalant arteries, un¬ der different circumftances, produce different effefts, as well as do the larger arteries by their alteration in this mode of action, all that re¬ mains, in order to eftablifh that fecretions, in general, are performed by the action of the fecerning veffels, is to transfer this rea- foning to thofe glands, which I treated of as more complex or compleat glands. This I have in part done, where I affirmed that they were univerfally vafcular ; for though, at the fame time, I remarked that there was a difference in the ramifications of the veffels in different glands, &c. yet this, and other varieties, which no doubt exift in their conftruftion, are only fuch as are proper for them, as they are to effeft a greater change on the general mafs. But that there is probably a fimilarity between the exha¬ lant V