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Title: Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Stirling, William, 1851-1932
Subjects: Physiology Physiologists Physiology
Publisher: London : Priv. print. by Waterlow and sons limited
Contributing Library: West Virginia University Libraries
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Almighty Maker of all things to prevent over-distension. They are most numerousin the extremities, because of the violent motions to which they are exposed ....and the blood, by reason of the increased heat, is attracted, and flows towards theextremities in excessive quantity. Their chief office, however, is to retard the flow of blood, andthus give time for the tissues to select from the blood the nutrimentmost suited for them. There were no valves in the arteries, whichhad thick and strong walls, and were not liable to distension. Thatvalves are absent in some great veins connected with importantorgans is to allow free access of blood to these organs. The figurewe have reproduced shows the arm bound with a fillet, as forbleeding; the veins are swollen, and the position of the valvesindicated by slight bulgings, exactly as was figured by Harvey. Theother figure shows an everted vein, with its valves. In the originalthere is a sprig of verbena. How different the uses made of the same
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FROM FABRICIUS, SHOWINO VALVES AND VEINS. fact by master and pupil! Fabricius used the fillet to show theposition of his ostiola, Harvey to show that, owing to their presence,the blood could not How from trunks to branches, as the swelling-occurs below the ligature. The quotations already given show howthe theories of Galen still held the field, and were taught by the mostadvanced teacher of anatomy, at a period just before Harveyobserved, experimented, and wrote. Fabricius was greatly respected in the Republic of Venice. Theillustration we have chosen is the frontispiece to his works, and showshim with his gold chain as a Cavaliere di San Marco, the chainprobably presented to him as a mark of respect by the Senate ofVenice. His good services to the State were rewarded with apension. The learned and somewhat erratic G. Ceradini (1844-1894), who took a deep interest in the writings of the Italian

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