Report on the state of the blood and the blood-vessels in inflammation, and on other points relating to the circulation in the extreme vessels : together with a report on lymphatic hearts and on the propulsion of lymph from them, through a proper duct into their respective veins / by T. Wharton Jones.

  • Jones, Thomas Wharton, 1808-1891.
Date:
1891
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Credit: Report on the state of the blood and the blood-vessels in inflammation, and on other points relating to the circulation in the extreme vessels : together with a report on lymphatic hearts and on the propulsion of lymph from them, through a proper duct into their respective veins / by T. Wharton Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the vein in the latter. The vein into which the lymph is propelled from an anterior lymphatic heart of the frog, it is to be further stated, is not endowed with rhythmical contractility' of its wall, calculated to act as a propelling force, any more than it is, itself, made to pulsate by the propulsion of lymph into it. The Paper entitled, On the Phenomena observed to attend the Propulsion of Lymph from an anterior lymphatic Description < f the diagram (magnified three or four diameters). A. The large transverse process of the third vertebra, b. The lymphatic heart, c. The vein into which the heart propels the lymph. ]>. The duct by which the heart opens into the vein. E. The large venous trunk (the pigmentation not represented), a continuation of c, which runs up as if from the lymphatic heart. heart into a vein in the Frog, just analysed, was communi- cated to the Eoyal Society in 1868. On account of its funda- mental importance as the first record of a crucial fact, whereby a glaring but current mistake is corrected, I here add extracts from the Paper explaining the mode of pro- cedure in the research. I. Description of the phenomena. § 111. It was shown by the late Dr. Marshall Hall that by plunging a frog into water of a temperature from 110° to