Observations on the anatomy of the lacteal system of vessels in the seal (Phoca Vitulina, Lin.) : and in some of the cetaceous mammalia (communicated in a letter to Dr Duncan Jun.).

  • Knox, Dr.
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[1824]
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Credit: Observations on the anatomy of the lacteal system of vessels in the seal (Phoca Vitulina, Lin.) : and in some of the cetaceous mammalia (communicated in a letter to Dr Duncan Jun.). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OBSERVATIONS ON THE ANATOMY OF THE LACTEAL SYSTEM OF VESSELS IN THE SEAL, {Phoca Vitulina, Lin.) AND - IN SOME OF THE CETACEOUS MAMMALIA. f Communicated in a Letter to Dr Duncan, jun.) By Dr. KNOX, F.R.S.E. MkMBBR of the WERKERIAN and MEDICO-CHIRURGICAE societies of EDINBURGrt. My Dear Sir, Agreeably to your wishes, 1 herewith send yoU a brief account of my dissection of the lacteal system in the seal, and have prefixed to it a short history of the circumstances which led to the inquiry. Many, perhaps, may be inclined to think, that the error which those great anatomists, Tiedemann and Foh- mann, have fallen into, relative to the anatomical distribution of the lacteal vessels, and consequently the formation of the tho- racic duct, might have been foreseen a priori', but the authori- ty of these anatomists, and more particularly of Tiedemann, is such, that many naturalists and physiologists would have de-