This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ...to know if the animal was fasting, or if it was in t operation of digestion when opened; the state of the lymphatics ought to have been examined at the beginning of the experiment: were they or were they not full of chyle?--What changes happened to the milk during the time it was in the intestine? What proof ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ...to know if the animal was fasting, or if it was in t operation of digestion when opened; the state of the lymphatics ought to have been examined at the beginning of the experiment: were they or were they not full of chyle?--What changes happened to the milk during the time it was in the intestine? What proof is there that the lacteals were filled with milk at the end of the experiment? Was it not rather chyle with which they were filled? To conclude, this experiment was repeated at different times by Flandrin, professor at the veterinary school of Alfort; and though he was well acquainted with the practice of making experiments upon living animals, he was not successful in this, that is to say, he perceived no milk in the lymphatic vessels. I hare myself several times repeated this experiment, and the results that I obtained were perfectly the same as those of Flandrin, and consequently quite contrary to those of Hunter. Thus the principal experiment of an author worthy of credit, in which he supposed he had witnessed the absorption of another fluid besides the chyle, by the lacteals, appears to have been either illusory or insignificant. I pass the other experiments of J. Hunter in silence, they being less conclusive than this. They have been repeated without success by Flandrin, as well as by myself. I thought it necessary to make some trials, in order to determine if the chyliferous and other lymphatic vessels of the intestinal canal really absorb other fluids besides the chyle. uiTi'Tin I" 'le lst place I proved that if a dog is made to swallow tic.'ai)ioritKn.four ounces of water, pure or mixed with a certain quantity of alcohol, of colouring matter, of acid or salt, in about an hour the whole of the liquid is absorbed in the intestinal...
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1823, Edinburgh. Printed for John Carfrae, Medical Booksellers. 1823
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Publisher:
Edinburgh. Printed for John Carfrae, Medical Booksellers. 1823
Published:
1823
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English
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16851154865
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8vo, 20.5cm, xxxiv, 445, [xvii]p., tables & errata page, folding table, notes, in contemporary half calf, red morocco label, gilt titles, marbled boards, endpapers foxed and some other occasional light foxing, worn at the edges, some wear on the boards, a very good copy (sgc). ~ An English edition of the "Precis elementaire de physiologie" first published in Paris in 1816. Francois Magendie (1783-1855), French physiologist, was noted as one of the founders of modern experimental physiology. Notorious for his experiments on animals, he did however revolutionize the physiological knowledge particularly that of the heart, digestion and nervous system.
