A fifth dissertation on fever : containing the history of, and remedies to be employed in irregular continued fevers ... / by George Fordyce ; edited by William Charles Wells.

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1803
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    ( 3 ) no longer diminish. These throw the blood into another set of similar vessels which are larger, these again into a set of vessels which are still larger, and these ter- minate in vessels called veins, which carry the blood towards the heart. It has been common to call the anas- tomosing vessels, while they are diminish- ing, anastomosing arteries; and when they begin to increase again, anastomosing veins; but the smallest set of these vessels neither increasing nor diminishing, it is impossible to call them arteries or veins. The author would therefore give them some other name, and, from their extreme minuteness, joins with those who have called them capillary vessels. , All these vessels, the large arteries and veins, and the anastomosing or capillary vessels, must contract so as to be always cylindrical, and always full of blood. It may be easily conceived, that the exertion in contracting one set of them may exhaust the living power more than the exertion in contract- ing another set of them. I hat is, the ex- ertion of the arteries before they begin to anastomose