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into exterior and i interior; all. which fend veins tothe mufcles ofthe calves of ithe 
Jegs. » Thofe on. the back of the foor, being mixed with the poplitea; makeithe 1 ‘< 
fame various texture of veins, which, are feen. under. the {kin, $+ Sepena,({o termed 
from, its apparency,). or vene maleoli, the ancle-vein, is Jong and. large, carriedidn 
through the infide of the thigh, between the fkin and membrana carnofa, tothe knee, 
and from thence, by'the inner part: of the leg, it runs to the inner*ancle vand to 
theupper part of ithe footand toes:" 6. The mufcula, a vein arifing from the trunk 
or branch hiddea among the mufcles: it is double, and remarkable, giving veins 
to the mufcles of the ‘thigh.\As to the veins of both arms. aad legs, itis tocbe 
noted 5 Grft, that:thetrcvarious branches fend diverfe twigs outward to the fkin, 
called cutancous-veins : fecondly, that even the grand branches are varioufly diftri- 
‘buted in every perfon, being feldom in one man as they are in another: and that the 
ight arms»or legs rarely agree with the left. In. opening the veins of the foot, 
‘you may indifferently make choice of any, feeing 3 they are all derived frgin Fauing 
the fametrunk. ©: 55 8 ay igi 
The vena porta, or gate-vein, is the next great vein to the cava; its) : prin ; 
pees is the vena umbilicalis, or navel-vein, the firtt of all the veins carifing from 
feed, and that by which the child is nourifhed in‘the womb afterwards it tiles - 
out of the hollow part of the liver, where ‘with many roots it is inferteds” The 
trunk, before it: is divided into lower branches, fends two fmall veins to the gall- : 
bladder, ‘called vene cypice, and another vein to the. ftomach called gaftrice 
dextra, which is divided about the lower orifice of the ftomach. : Afterwards the 
‘trunk “is divided into: two eminent lower branches, “viz. the /pleneticy and the 
Wiefenteric.” Ramus -fpleneticus goes into the fpleen. Before it is dividedy it fends 
* ‘fronvitfelf two upper branches to the ftomach, firkt galtrica finiftra, or major, (che latg- 
eft of all the ftomach veins,) which afterwards conftitute the coronaria’; then it fends 
lower: branches, one to the omentum or caul, and one to:the pamcreas. Afterwards the 
“trunk of the ramus Splenicusis divided into the upper and» lower: branches + the 
former produces the vas breve and other little branches carried into the fpleen : 
te tl . “sreund I. eae eaaane Si mifira, carrey runs out Jot: abe bottom of 
‘et a Vena epiplois, which runs out upon’ the Gate! parts$ ‘gab! a mali ae 
i: thier = ral’ ‘branches; which are fent up and down ali over the: ipieen. " - 
n a ‘vena Lstrat ee rasnits dist whole Leper me 
‘from whence certain spor? twigs go een she Ane and comnts uf Ww | 7 
and | another to the right fide of the ftomach and dméntum. Afterwards the 
