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body perspires without, as well as within: the first ideas of the 

 existence of the cellular tissue, have been sought for in this 

 passage. What Erasistratus called parenchyma, corresponds, 

 perhaps, with this tissue. But we find no exact ideas, as to its 

 disposition, until the time of Charles Etienne, Vesalius, and 

 Adrian Spigel : even these anatomists, and a great many of 

 those who succeeded them, have only indicated the cellular 

 tissue, in the different places where it is met with, as around 

 the vessels, muscles, fat, &c. Kaaw Boerhaave, Bergen and 

 Winslow, were the first who published some general ideas, on 

 the continuity of this tissue, in the different regions; but it is 

 since the time of Haller, only, that it has been presented to us 

 in a correct point of view. The cellular tissue has occasioned 

 many treatises. Schobinger, Thierry, W. Hunter, Bordeu, 

 Fouquet, Wolff, Detten, Luca3, de Felici, paid particular at- 

 tention to it. Their works have added but little to the de- 

 scription given by Haller ; but several of them are remarka- 

 ble* for ideas, more or less correct, of the nature and func- 

 tions of this tissue. All anatomists, and those in particular, 

 who occupied themselves with general anatomy, have spoken 

 of it in their books: Mascagni, alone, scarcely names it. There 

 are no good plates of the cellular tissue, in fact, having no de- 

 termined form or colour, it is impossible to represent it; 

 Wolff has made the experiment, but has failed. 



137. In order to facilitate the study of the cellular tissue, 

 we examine it successively, in two portions, of which one is 

 considered as independent of the organs, and as merely filling 



*Dav. Ch. Schobinger. De telsc cellulosae, in fobrica corporis humani,- dig- 

 nitate. Gott. 1748. Fr. Thierry. Ergo in celluloso textu frequentius morbi et 

 morborum mutationes. Paris. 1749, 1757, 1788. W. Hunter. Remarks on 

 the cellular membrane, etc, in Med. Obs. and Inq. vsl. II. London 1757. Th. 

 de Bordeu Rccherches sur le tissu muqueux ou Porgane cellulaire, etc. Paris 

 1767. Fouquet and Abadie. De corpore criboso Hippocratis. Monsp. 1774 

 C. F. Wolf. De tela quam dicunt cdlulosam observationes, in nova act a Jicad. 

 Sc. Imp. Pctrop. vol. vi, vii, viii, 1790, 1791 M. Uetten. Beytrag etc. viz. 

 supplement to the study of the functions of the cellular tissue. Munster, 

 1800. S. H. Lucre, .ftnnotationes circa telam cellulosam, in obs. circa nemos, 

 etc. Franc, ad Moen. 1810. G. M. de Felici. Cennl di una nuova idea, sulla 

 natura del tcssuto cellulare. Pavia, 1817. 



