[On the discovery of the lacteal and lymphatic vessels].

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[18uu]
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    to be that of nourishing the thorax. Some authors say that Olaus Rudbeche, a Swedish anatomist, first discovered the lymphatic vessels, while others maintain that it was Thomas Bartholine, a Dane. We are told that Uudbeche appealed to his scho- lars and friends for his having a knowledge of the lymphatic vessels before Thomas Bartholine pub- lished his description of them, but that he never was able to persuade the majority of anatomists that the honour of the discovery did not belong to Bartholine. Although we are informed that those anatomists were the first who discovered the lymphatic vessels, yet it appears they left this subject in a very un- finished and uninvestigated state, both as regards their origin, distribution, and use. Consequently the attention of anatomists and physiologists has been from that time to the present more or less excited, with a view of bringing this important sub- ject to some acknowledged decision. Among the writers and experimentalists on this point, we have the names of Professors Boerhaave, Malpighe, Van Horn, Highmore, Ruysch, Nuck, Winslow,Cowper, Glisson, Lister, the Hunters, the Munroes, Cruick- shank, Hewson, Mascagni, Sommering, Blumen- bach, Magendie, Flandrin, Fodera, &c. &c. &c.