JS^otes to Introductorij Leclure, Ijx^ 



New Edinburgh Enejclopsedia, article comparative anato- 

 my, la this way the verniiciilar and peristaltic motion of 

 the bowels — the respiration of birds, and the action of their 

 gizzards, &c. ka, were ascertained. 



A^ote o5. 



The spleen has been extracted from dogs and other animals 

 without any injury, and even from man : as Ilaller shows 

 hy numerous authorities : Phys. torn. 6, p. 421, 4to, Lugdun. 

 Batav. 1764. Mr. Shiptoa cut out two fingers length of the 

 ilium of a dog, without injury to him. Phil. Trans. No. 283. 

 Dr. Musgrave cut out the cjecum of a bitch, without any in- 

 jury. Phil. Trans. No. 151. The late Dr. Jones of Phila- 

 delphia cut off a portion of the pancreas of a man, that pro- 

 truded from a wound, and he did well. 



Xote 36. 



One dog lived " for more than twelve months, with the 

 two carotids, the two femorals, and one brachial artery ob- 

 literated." The vessels were tied in succession, after the 

 wounds of a previous operation had healed. The dog whose 

 aorta was tied, lived two years, and was then killed ; and 

 the body being injected, the anastomosing vessels were beau- 

 tifully seen. Med. and Chirurg. Trans. London, vol. 2. 



JS'*ole 37. 



The saving of life by taking up the vessels of the neck, or 

 the large vessels of the extremities, w hen they are diseased 

 or wounded, is a modern improvement in surgery. In form- 

 er times, death in the one case, and the loss of the limb in 

 the other, was the fate of the sufterer. 



Mr. John Bell of Edinburgh, took up the posterior iliac 

 artery, in consequence of its division, by the points of a long 

 pair of scissars, *•' at the place over the sciatic notch, where 

 it comes out from the pelvis ^" it was tied exactly where it 

 turns over the bone, and the man was cured, ^* and walked 

 stoutly." Surgery, 4to, vol. 1, p. 423. 

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