Medical, chirurgical and anatomical cases and observations / Translated from the German original by George Wirgman [With preface by P. Shaw and introduction by D. Cox].

  • Lorenz Heister
Date:
1755
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Credit: Medical, chirurgical and anatomical cases and observations / Translated from the German original by George Wirgman [With preface by P. Shaw and introduction by D. Cox]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 534 ' -'M EPICAL, 'CHI'RURGrCALj^-^W I ordered her to boil the foilowing'ingredients in a pint of milk, and^ to take the milk as hot as (he could bear in her mouth, and to apply the ingredients between linen-cloths, warm, to the afFedted cheek : Flor. chamomeh mj. Summitat. origani, mfs. '■ ' ' 7,' Sem. anethi, §fs. ' ' —-hyofcyam. alb. ^ii. m. By this treatment the pain went entirel)^ oft in the evening. We learn from this inflance, that it is not always necefTary, in the tooth- ach to draw the teeth, and that therefore we fliould not haftily advife it till other remedies have been tried in vain. r OBSERVATION CCCCLXVI. • Of the glands in general, TN the year 1718, Dr. Mauchart, who was my pupil two years, began to clear up, in a manner agreeable to my fentiments on the fubject, the dodtrine of the glands, which before had been very obfcure ; this he did in his difputation de vera glandulae appellatione. 'Before this there were * feveral very fingular opinions about them, and which had no foundation, and had much perplexed both teachers and fcholars. In the following year another of my pupils, Mr. Grambs, treated on this fubjedt, in a difputation for the degree of Doctor of.phylic, de glan- dulis qua3 pr^eter neceffitatem in corpore humano ftatuuntur. Some .would pretend that there were glands in the inteifines, in which they blindly followed Malpighius j in this difputation it is proved that glands are not to be found in every part where they are pretended to exifl, neither has any perfon feen them; thofe who have imagined them to exifl, having faid it either on the authority of Malpighius, or through fome error of their own in examining appearances which they have miflaken for glands. Thefe fadls I have demonflrated more fully in my compendium anatomicum. # — O.B SERVATION CCCCLXVII. • Of the glandida dorfalis. SOMETIMES, about the fifth dorfal vertebra, we meet with’are- markable gland, adhering to the poflerior part of the oefophagus: it has been defcribed and delineated, by Vefalius and others, who called it the glandula dorfalis. This gland is obferyed of different magnitude; fre¬ quently we meet with it of the bignefs of a kidney-bean or almond, fometimes