The anatomist's vade-mecum : containing the anatomy, physiology, morbid appearances, &c. of the human body : the art of making anatomical preparations, &c. / by Robert Hooper, M.D.

  • Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835.
Date:
1804
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Credit: The anatomist's vade-mecum : containing the anatomy, physiology, morbid appearances, &c. of the human body : the art of making anatomical preparations, &c. / by Robert Hooper, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ^* efteem them worthy of an anfwer. It would be un- ** worthy of me to return cpprobrluus language for ** theirs ; I fnould do better, for lvn\] overcome cppo- *' fition by truth ; and if they will conlicer with me the anatomy of the vileft mfecl, they will nnd a God equally in the humbler as in the higher works of creation. Thus the difcovery of the circulation of the blood was m?.de known, oppofed, and derided ; a difcovery which has immortalized its author ; notwithftand- ing the additional oath required by the Italian uni- verfities, then the moft celebrated in Europe for the ftudy of anatomy ami medicine, an oath enadled to oppofc belief in the difcovery, that you fnall likewife fwear '** that you will, with all your might, preferve and de- fend the dodrines of Hippocrates, Ariftotle, and Ga- len, which are taught in this univerfity, and have ** been approved of during a long feries of ages; and ** that you will not permit their principles and conclu- fions to be overturned by any perfon whatever.— Notwithftanding even this powerful oppofition, Harvey had the happinefs to live and fee, after thirty years op- pofition, his dodrine of the circulation embraced, be- lieved, and taught by his cotemporaries. Soon after the difcovery of the circulation of the blood, AsELius, an Italian, dlfcovered the lacteals, which Pecquet, in 1651, traced to the thoracic du(5l, and thence to the left fubclavian vein. In i6j3, RuDBECK and Bartholin difcovered the lym- jjhatics: it does not appear that there was any com-