A treatise on the management of female complaints, and of children in early infancy / by Alexander Hamilton, M.D. ; Professor of midwifery in the University, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society, of Edinburgh, &c.

  • Hamilton, Alexander, 1739-1802.
Date:
MDCCXCII [1792]
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Credit: A treatise on the management of female complaints, and of children in early infancy / by Alexander Hamilton, M.D. ; Professor of midwifery in the University, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society, of Edinburgh, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t* The ^Secretory Vessels are thofe which are deftinecl for preparing from the blood the va- rious fluids which are r.eceflary for the preferva- tion ef tlie different funftions of the human body. They are merely modilications of the blood-vef- fels, nerves, aud lymphatics, ki.own by the name of Glands. Some of thefe are fimple in their itrudure ; for being hollow, and receiving a great quantity of blcod-vcflels, they feem merely adaptf- td for the flagnation of the blood-, which is either afterwards forced through an opening, by the pref- lure of forae cA' the neighbouring parts, or takea up by a particular apparatus for that purpofe. The more, complicated glands, although they pre^riire djiTercnt kinds of fluids, feem all to be of the fanve general {liuSure. They are of differ- ent tlzes, and coniill of a vaft number of blood-vef- fels, ^-c. wonderfully intermixed with each other, .dividing into very miniUe. branches, and formed into numerous fmall inequalities. The ExcRKTORY Vessels proceed from thefe glands. Rifing from innumerable fmall branches, they terminate in one or more trunks, and convey the prepared fluid to the paits for which it is de.- figncd. • _ By its vefTels, therefore,, the body is nou.riflied, and its unneceflary or worn-out parts are carried afl. Hence every part of the body muft be'fup- plied with vefTels ; though in fome ll\?j ar^'ifo.yc- ry minute, that thev are invilible. \1, .. FLESHY PARTS.—The fleOiy parts ot tlie body arc divided naturally into portions of various forrns, called by anatomifts Muscles. ' ^''. /i Thcie are all found to be compofcd ^f an araaz- A 3 .' ' ' ' *Jn/