The anatomy of humane bodies with figures drawn after the life by some of the best masters in Europe and curiously engraven in one hundred and fourteen copper plates : illustrated with large explications containing many new anatomical discoveries and chirurgical observations : to which is added an introduction explaining the animal œconomy : with a copious index / by William Cowper.

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Title: The anatomy of humane bodies with figures drawn after the life by some of the best masters in Europe and curiously engraven in one hundred and fourteen copper plates : illustrated with large explications containing many new anatomical discoveries and chirurgical observations : to which is added an introduction explaining the animal œconomy : with a copious index / by William Cowper.
Author: Cowper, William, 1666-1709.
Publication: Oxford :: Printed at the Theater for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford ... London,; 1698.
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Subject terms: Human anatomy -- Atlases.; Human anatomy -- Early works to 1800.
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Fig 13.

A Lymphatick Gland with its Importing and Exporting Lympheducts Fill'd with Mercury.

A, The Gland whose Vesiculae are Distended with Mercury.

E, The Importing Lympheduct, by which the Mercury was Injected into the Vesiculae Glandulosae;

D D, Its Ramifications before they Enter the Gland.

C C, The Ramifications of the Exporting Lympheducts, as they Arise out of the Gland and Unite in One Trunk, Call'd

B, The Exporting Lympheduct, which Passes either into the Receptaculum Chyli immediatly, or Thoracick Duct, or else into another Lymphatick Gland.

Besides this Communication of Lympheducts by the Mediation of Lymphatick Glands; the Trunks of the Lympheducts themselves are frequently Inosculated with each other, and tho' they commonly Enter into the next Lymphatick Gland (where they Meet with a Fresh Supply of Lymphe Separated from the Blood-vessels of the Gland, as well as an Impetus from thence) yet it sometimes Happens there is a Communicant Branch from the Importing to the Exporting Lympheduct, as Appears in the Following Figure.