Medical and physical researches, or, Original memoirs in medicine, surgery, physiology, geology, zoology, and comparative anatomy / by R. Harlan.

  • Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843.
Date:
1835
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Credit: Medical and physical researches, or, Original memoirs in medicine, surgery, physiology, geology, zoology, and comparative anatomy / by R. Harlan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON ABSORPTION. Report of the Committee of the Academy of Medicine of Philadelphia, on the Means by which Absorption is effected. The Committee of the Academy of Medicine of Phila- delphia, appointed to investigate, hy experiment, the question, Whether the veins absorb, and whether posi- tive evidence can be obtained that the lymphatics perform that function, or that the lacteals absorb any thing but chyle— Report—That they have spent considerable time upon the inquiry intrusted to their charge, and have performed a considerable number of experiments relating to this sub- ject, but intending to prosecute it further, had not distri- buted their attention in due proportion to all the parts of which it is composed, when unavoidable engagements, on the part of all the members, and the sickness of one of them, rendered it impossible, at the present time, to pro- ceed. Not being able to promise themselves a speedy re- newal of their undertaking, or to assign, at present, the precise time when they can renew it at all, they have concluded to make a report, embracing the subject in its present unfinished state. Some points, we trust, not without importance, will be found fully established, according to the ordinary opera- tions of human reason ;—others will want further confir- mation and elucidation, and some have been only broached. In our experiments, in which we employed forty-three animals, we used much precaution to ensure their accu- racy. The whole of the Committee were present at the greater part of them, and all the important ones were so frequently repeated with similar results, that the mem-