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NOTES 



Anatomica De Glandulis Oris, &■ nuper 

 obfervatis inde prodeuntibus Vasis Pri= 

 ma (6- Secvnda). Lugd. Batav. 1661. 

 The defence of these dissertations took 

 place on the 6th and 9th of July; they 

 are to be found as No. [II] of the pre* 

 sent Edition. See moreover List of Ste= 

 no's Writings in vol. II. 



P. 6. 1. 12-13 from top. 



falivales glandulae duas, interi* 

 or unam, alteram exterior, fibi af« 

 fociarunt] Glandula salivalis exterior 

 and interior d: glandula submaxillaris 

 and sublingvalis. See Adenographia . . . 

 Authore Thoma Whartono. Londini 

 1656. c. XXI p. 128. 



P. 6. 1. 16 from bottom. 



tibi, ut qvi primus haec vafa de« 

 texifti] Pecquet in 1649 found the tho« 

 racic duct in a dog (Joannis Pecqveti 

 . . . Experimenta Nova Anatomica, Qyi= 

 bus Incognitvm Hactenvs Chyli Recep= 

 taculum, &■ ab eo per Thoracem in ra= 

 mos ufque Subclavios Vasa Lactea de= 

 teguntur. . . Parisiis 1651). The thoracic 

 duct was found independently by van 

 Home, that published the discovery in 

 1652 (see note above to p. 4. 1. 5 from 

 top). Thomas Bartholin was the first 

 who demonstrated the duct in man : De 

 Lacteis Ihoracicis in homine brutisq; 

 nuperrime observatis . . . Hafniae 1652. 

 This was followed by his discovery of 

 the lymphatic vessels: Vasa Lymphatica, 

 Nuper Hafniae in Animantibus inventa, 

 Et Hepatis exseqviae. Hafniae 1653. 



P. 6. 1. 11 from bottom. 



a Bilfii parti bus] For an account 

 of Lodewijk de Bils see Biogr. Woor= 

 denboek der Nederlanden, vol. II p. 

 555 and the Introduction. Bils main* 



tained that all the watery fluids and 

 secretions of the body come from the 

 thoracic duct. Concerning his contro* 

 versy with Thomas Bartholin, see those 

 of Steno's writings which follow imme* 

 diatly after this Letter, and furthermore 

 Gosch, Udsigt over Danmarks zoolo= 

 giske Literatur, vol. II 1, Kjebenhavn 

 1872, pp. 117-131. 



Thomas Bartholin's reply to this Let* 

 ter from Steno is found in Epist. Me= 

 dicin. Cent. III. Hafnise 1667, No. XXV 

 pp. 95-98. 



II 



de glandulis oris 6, novis 



inde prodeuntibus 



saliva: vasis. 



Steno's Disputatio Anatomica De Glan- 

 dulis Oris, &■ nuper obfervatis inde prod= 

 euntibus Vajis was published in Ley* 

 den in 1661. It was reprinted in 1662 

 as the first of the four Treatises found 

 in Nicolai Stenonis Observationes Ana= 

 tomicx, Quibus Varia Oris, Oculorum, 

 6- Narium Vafa defcribuntur, novique 

 falivx, lacrymarum &■ muci fontes de= 

 teguntur, Et Novum Nobiliffimi Bilfii 

 De lympha? motu &■ ufu commentum 

 Examinatur &■ rejicitur. Lugd. Batav. 

 1662. The text of this second edition, 

 which was corrected and somewhat en« 

 larged by Steno himself, has been made 

 the basis of the present Edition. In the 

 following notes attention is called to 

 any divergency of text in the two edi<= 

 tions, unless being quite unconsiderable. 



P. 11. 



This Dedication is found both in 

 the edition of 1661 and in that of 1662; 



