On the structure and use of the spleen / by Henry Gray.

  • Henry Gray
Date:
1854
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Credit: On the structure and use of the spleen / by Henry Gray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. PART 1. PAGE Historical Introduction 1 Hippocrates describes its use as serving to draw the ■watery parts of tlie food from the stomach , . 1 Aristotle's opinion similar to that of Hippocrates . 2 Opinions of Erasistratus and Rnfus Ephesius that it has no use ......... 3 That it serves to draw the melancholic humour from the liver (Paulus ^gineta) ...... 3 Galen's opinion of its partial excretory use ... 4 His opinion adopted by numerous anatomists—Valverde, Columbus, Bauhin, Brunnfelsius .... 5 Estienne's statement of the spleen possessing an excre- tory duct ........ 5 The overthrow of the Galenic theory by Vesalius . 6 The theory of Ulmus of its elaborating blood from the chyle 7 The supposition of its being the liver of the left side . 8 Plato's adoption of a similar opinion .... 8 Hoffman's revival of the opinions of Aristotle and Galen. 8 Its reception by numerous writers .... 8 Total overthrow of the Galenic theory by Riolanus . 9 Progress of physiology in the Seventeenth Century , 10 Highmor's elaborate descriiDtion of the spleen . . 10 The opinion of Glisson and Whax-ton that it secretes an aqueous fluid for the nerves n
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