This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...Another is that which they make about the secretion of yellow hile. For in this case, too, it is not a fact that when the blood runs past the mouths stomata of the bile-ducts there will be a thorough separation out secretion of biliary waste-matter. "Well," say they, "let us suppose that it is not secreted but carried ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...Another is that which they make about the secretion of yellow hile. For in this case, too, it is not a fact that when the blood runs past the mouths stomata of the bile-ducts there will be a thorough separation out secretion of biliary waste-matter. "Well," say they, "let us suppose that it is not secreted but carried with the blood all over the body." But, you sapient folk, Erasistratus himself supposed that Nature took thought for the animals' future, and was workmanlike in her method; and at the same time he maintained that the biliary fluid was useless in every way for the animals. Now these two things are incompatible. For how could Nature be still looked on as exercising forethought for the animal when she allowed a noxious humour such as this to be carried off and distributed with the blood?... This, however, is a small matter. I shall again point out here the greatest and most obvious error. For if the yellow bile adjusts itself to the narrower vessels and stomata, and the blood to the wider ones, for no other reason than that blood is thicker and bile thinner, and that the stomata of the veins are 1 Horror vacui. 2 But Erasistratus had never upheld this in the case of urinary secretion. i/. p. 99. But when a man shamelessly goes on using circumlocutions, and never acknowledges when he has had a fall, he is like the amateur wrestlers, who, when they have been overthrown by the experts and are lying on their backs on the ground, so far from recognizing their fall, actually seize their victorious adversaries by the necks and prevent them from getting away, thus supposing themselves to be the winners! Why, then, says Galen, does not urine, rather than bile, enter the bile-ducts? 2 Urine, or, more exactly, blood-serum. Thus, every hy...
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