A description of the arteries of the body / by John Barclay.

  • John Barclay
Date:
1820
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Credit: A description of the arteries of the body / by John Barclay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ^■a^', or as deviations from a general law, that has been supposed, but never deduced on tlie princi- ples of induction, by any extensive or patient in- quu-y into the modes in which nature diversifies the Arterial System. The second question admits of an answer in a few words. Instead of describing the indefinite varie- ties that distinguish individuals, I have endeavour- ec], from various preparations, and the descriptions of various authors, to ascertain the general range alloAved to each of the Larger Arteries, as to their origm, their ramification, and extent of distribu- tion. To the third question, the reply is very nearly as short. The whole Treatise is by no means occui- pied with the description. Wherever I haxe devi- ated from the accounts usually given, I have felt as if bound, in justice and candour, to assign my rea- sons, and to quote authorities, such as the scrupu- lous.and inquisitive reader might naturally demand, the intelligent reader naturally expect, and which only the tlioughtless and the indifferent would have dispensed with. The fourth question demands an answer not only to arguments, but even to strong and to eai-ly pre- judices, and yet notwithstanding is so va^ue in it- self, that it points to no definite object. To what
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