Medical commentaries. Part I. Containing a plain and direct answer to Professor Monro jun. Interspersed with remarks on the structure, functions and diseases of several parts of the human body / By William Hunter, M. D.

  • Hunter, William, 1718-1783.
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1777
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    “ might be demondrated either by blowing Into the artery, or by making a ligature on the emulgent vein in a living dog; for In each “ way they will be diftended : but you obferved at the fame time, “ that thefe experiments were no proofs of their being continued from arteries, as the cafe might be the fame as in injedting.—You pro- “ duced before us, a preparation of the 'Teftis from a horfe, in which the “ artery was injeded red, and the lymphatics dried hollow, dihended “ with air, wdiich you told us had been throwm into them by inflating the cellular membrane.—-I think 1 could recolledt fome few more particulars upon this fubje<ff: but I ihall give nothing from memory, “ not caring to trufl to it, at this diftance of time. What 1 have here “ faid is a mere relation of fa£ts, extradted from the notes i have taken “ at your ledlures.” Dr. D’Urban, in his letter to me from Richmond, Nov. 12. 1757, fays, “ I have been looking into the notes I made from your ledlures, “ in the beginning of the year 1749, and—fhall tranferibe the para- “ graph juft as it ftands. “ Lymphatics] A preparation of the lymphatics of a horfe’s Teftis ** ---I do not believe them continuations of the feriferous arteries, but abforbent veflels placed in every interftice of the body, which take up “ any fluid, thrown into the Abdomen or any other cavity ; as is feen “ from daily experience. I have injedted the fpleen, which is full of “ lymphatics, with the moft fubtle injedtions, filled every branch of “ the'artery or vein, when after tying the vein, and forcing the in- “ jedlion till the veflel burft, immediately on the extravafation the “ lymphatics became filled. This I have tried more than once, with “ the fame fuccefs. Hence I conclude they are not a continuation of, “ nor have any communication with the arteries -f*”. C 2 Dr. method in a dog, when the Tejih was not feparated from the body, and traced them all the way up to the thoracic duct. * The preparation above-mentioned, where tlie lymphatics are filled by blowing into th-e fubftance of the TeJiiSy and which I have generally produced at my ledtures both as a fpecimen of thofe veflels, and as a proof of the doftrine. The reader is defired here to obferve, that I had then a preparation, and fliewed it, of the lymphatics of the Teji'is filled in this man¬ ner j and Profeflbr Hamilton had from my brother a preparation of the lymphatics filled by extravafation. But, notwithftanding all this, ProfelTor ISIonrq has the modefiy to aflert, (pag. 43.) that “ Dr. Hunter never had made any fuch experiments or preparations, nor “ even imagined the thing poffible.” f This gentleman (Dr. D’Urban) ftudied at Edinburgh, in the winter 1752-3, after having attended my lectures, was acquainted with Alexander Monro jun. then a ftudent, and