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Title: Tri-State medical journal
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ball, James Moores, 1863-1929
Subjects: Tri-State Medical Society Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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- of theexistence of the valves which has rendered the name of Fabricius immortal.Harvey calls him, the celebrated Hieronymus Fabricius of Acquapen-dente, a most skillful anatomist, and venerable old man, and gives himcredit for first describing the valves which he calls ostolia. Who indeed,says Fabricius, would have thought of finding membranes and ostiolawithin the cavities of the veins of all places else, where their office of cany-ing blood to all parts of the body is taken into account ? He believed thevalves were designed to prevent over-distension of the veins. What firstastonishes, he says, is that these valves have so long escaped anatom-ists, ancient as well as modern, and so entirely escaped them that no men-tion was made of them, until the year 1574, when I observed them for the-
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FABRICIUS. 154 Report on Progress-Surgery. first time with great joy (summa cum laetitia). Honest old anatomistthat he was, Fabricius did not know that the valves had been observed by-anyone before him. Yet it is certain that Jacobus Sylvius described themas epiphyses venarum. Etienne had seen valves in the vena azygos andhepatic vein; Cannanus andAmatus had observed those of the vena azygos,renal and iliac veins; while Sylvius had described those of the extremitiesand neck. .Meryon (History of Medicine p. 289) gives the obsolutepriority to Ktienne. Although the valves are the anatomical proof of the circulation of theblood, yet Kabricius is acknowledged by a recent Italian writer not tohave had even the most remote idea of a circulation of the blood. It is.true that the Italian anatomists, even later than the sixteenth century,drew many of their physiological views from Aristotle and Galen. Such,,however, was the condition of all Europe. SURGERY. By Geo. W. Calk, M. D., F. R. M. S.,

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