LYMPHATIC ABSORBENTS. 
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go off, and the ligature may then be removed without any evil 
consequences ensuing. While, on the contrary, if a similar 
quantity be introduced in the same way without a ligature 
being used, death, in the course of eight or ten minutes, will be 
the result: shewing, therefore, that it depends on the quick 
manner in which any poison is introduced into the circulation, 
and no proof whatever against the lymphatic vessels performing 
the function of absorption as well as the red veins. 
Although Magendie admits that the lymphatic vessels are a 
system of serous veins, yet it is most surprising that he should 
doubt that they possess the faculty of absorbing ; and this arises, 
up doubt, in consequence of his not having found the effects so 
certain, and follow so rapidly, as when absorption of any poison 
takes place in those parts, as the mucous membranes, See., in 
which there are innumerable radicles of the real veins. Neither 
does he appear to take into consideration the extent of the surface 
necessary to produce a slow or a quick mode of absorption ; nor 
whether there is any difference between absorption from a serous 
or a mucous surface, forgetting that, in the former, these mem¬ 
branes in the natural state of the circulation possess arteries and 
veins, which convey transparent or white blood only: while, in 
the latter instance, in the mucous membranes the blood is of a 
different character, the circulation much more strong, and, of 
course, when absorption takes place, as in the latter instance, it 
must be more effectual than in the former. 
[To be continued.] 
THE VETERINARIAN , DECEMBER 1 , 1832. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
The index, which must always form a part of the December 
number of our periodical, and the length of some of the preced¬ 
ing articles, have compelled us to omit our Review, Extracts, 
Miscellanea, and, in a manner, our Leading Article. 
Mr. W. C. Spooner’s case of Strangulation, with an engrav¬ 
ing, shall appear in January. 
We cannot admit the communication from Juvenis : it is far 
too intemperately worded ; and it is not authenticated by the 
