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NOTES 



chapters XXI and XXII, especially pp. 

 136 and 144. 



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Nobil. Bilfius] In a pamphlet prin* 

 ted in Dutch in 1658, but soon trans* 

 lated into Latin under the title D< Ludo- 

 vici De Bils Toparchae in Koppenfdam- 

 me, Bonem, &c. Epistolica Dissertatio: 

 Qua vevus Hepatis circa Chylum, &■ 

 pariter ductus Chiliferi hactenus dicti 

 ufus, docetur 1 ) Bils had maintained 

 that the view adopted on the basis of 

 the discoveries made by Pecquet, van 

 Home and Th. Bartholin concerning the 

 function of the chyle and the thoracic 

 duct, was erroneous. Bils asserted that 

 the chyle was conveyed to the liver by 

 the vena? mesaraicae mixed with blood 

 and that the thoracic duct, which he 

 called ductus roriferus, only carried 

 lymph, which was led from there direct 

 all over the body in small canals, to 

 appear as tears, saliva etc. 



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Anton. Deufingius] Deusing, who 

 had never made any anatomical inve* 

 stigations himself but was a man of ex* 

 tensive reading, sided with Bils in the 

 long and troublesome quarrel, which 

 arose through Bils pamphlet mentioned 

 above; a quarrel in which Bartholin 

 joined with ardour and in which Steno, 

 too, was involved for a time. In his 

 Exercitationes PhyJico= Anatomic a?, De 

 Nutrimenti in Corpore Elaboratione. 

 Vbi De Chylificatione, & Chyli Motu; 

 Sanguificatione ; Depuratione Alimenti; 



') This pamphlet is found (pp. 20—23) in : Epi° 

 stola Apologetica Ad Magnum Th. Bartholinum 

 Regium in Regia Hafnienfi Profefforem Anato° 

 micorum Coryphxum De Calumniis NobiltfT. Iax° 

 dovico Bilsio a CoppenJ damme, Bonem, &c. D° 

 . . . impactis . . . Roterodami 1661. 



Itemque Spiritibus. Quibus adjecta ap= 

 pendix in qua examini acjudicio aliorum 

 fubjiciuntur varias de chyli motu et nu= 

 trimenti in corpore elaboratione nee non 

 de admiranda anatome nobiliss. viri 

 D. Ludovici de Bils. Groningae 1660, 

 Deusing asserted, that the saliva had 

 various sources. The greater part of the 

 saliva was, according to him, the watery 

 fluid which came from the larger sali* 

 vary glands through their excretory ducts, 

 and which was first conveyed to the 

 glands from the ductus roriferus through 

 certain ramuli roriferi; but moreover the 

 saliva consisted of the more watery part 

 of the serum, which through small ar* 

 teries was exuded into the mouth; and 

 lastly of a watery matter which passed 

 from the brain through the foramina in 

 the sphenoid bone to the glands men* 

 tioned above or direct into the mouth. 

 — Steno' s reference to Deusing here, and 

 again in § 42. (vol. I p. 42 of the pre* 

 sent Edition) called forth a pamphlet 

 from Deusing: Vindiciae hepatis redivivi, 

 1661, to which Steno replied with his 

 Treatise Responsio Ad Vindicias Hepa= 

 tis Rediviviin Observationes Anatomical 

 . . . 1662 (No. IV of the present EdU 

 tion. vol. I p. 61. See the introduction 

 to the notes to it.). 



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ur|T£ &7tojuv>TT£Cttai] Xenophon, 

 Institutio Cyri (Kvpow Tiaibeia) I 2, 16: 

 Aidxpov |.iev yap eti xai vuv eon Ilep- 

 oaic; xai to ajiojrnteiv xai to d^ouuTTe- 

 otfai, xai to cpucric; ueorouq cpaivec&at. 



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eon xpi'oiq] Hippocrates, De Dizeta 

 (riepi Aian-riO III 70. Ed. Littre. vol. VI 

 p. 608. 



