[Introductory lecture, read before the City of London Medical and Chirurgical Society on Tuesday, the 8th of June, 1830].

  • Firth, Thomas.
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[1830]
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Credit: [Introductory lecture, read before the City of London Medical and Chirurgical Society on Tuesday, the 8th of June, 1830]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    blood, Rudbeck and Bertholiti discovered the tubes called lymphatics. This discovery was not made from •the joint, but individual, efforts of those anatomists, each, being unacquainted with the other's discovery, until after it had been published, which occurred about the same time. The description which Bertholin gave of the use of this system, of vessels was more generally approved than that given by Rudbeck, consequently his merits were duly appreciated. Although Bertholin's description was superior to that of his contemporary Rudbeck, still this explanation was very imperfect, and became the subject of Glisson's consideration, from whom it received considerable improvement. The discovery of the lymphatic system left little to be accomplished by anatomists of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and present centuries, further than confirm what had been previously discovered, and direct their attention to a further and correct knowledge of the functions and use of the various parts of the human body. Amongst the vast number who have thrown considerable light upon anatomy, and parti- cularly physiology, the following names stand prominently conspicuous, viz. Albinus, Cooper, Diemerbrock, High- more, Cheselden, Lewenhoeck, Malpighi, Willis, and Winslow, .in .the seventeenth century; and in the eighteenth, Haller, Morgagni, Scarpa, Soemmering, Monro, Hunter, Cruickshanks, and Bell. Those 'Of the present are Gall, Spurzheim, Cooper, Abernethy, C. Bell, Bichat, Majendie, Cuvier, and many others whom I shall have to mention in the physiological part of those lectures. Having concluded a short, and therefore a very im- perfect history of some of the most important discoveries, I shall now briefly notice them in as concise a manner B