Experiments on animals / by Stephen Paget.

  • Paget, Stephen, 1855-1926.
Date:
1900
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Credit: Experiments on animals / by Stephen Paget. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    THE PANCREAS ERE again Claude Bernard’s name must be put first. Before him, the diverse actions of the pancreatic juice had hardly been studied. Vesalius (1543), greatest of all anatomists, makes no mention of the duct of the pancreas, and speaks of the gland itself as though its purpose were just to support the parts in its neighbourhood—ut ventriculo instar sub- sterniculi ac pulvinaris subjiciatur. The duct was discovered by Wirsung, about 1640 : but anatomy could not see the things that belong to physiology. Lindanus (1653) said, I cannot doubt that the pancreas expurgates, in the ordinary course of Nature, those i?n- purities of the blood that are too crass and inept to be tamed by the spleen : and, in the extraordinary course, all black bile, begotten of disease or intemperate living. Wharton (1656) said, It ministers to the nerves, taking up certain of their superfluities, and remitting them through its duct