Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 515

THOMAS BARTHOLIN (1616-1680) Vasa lymphatica. Typis & impensis Benedicti Guaschi 1654 [171]-[209] pp. 14.9 cm.

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In the present work which Bartholin first published at Copenhagen in 1653, he reported on his most important findings concerning the lymphatic system. Although anatomists had been aware of the vessels Bartholin had described in De lacteis thoracicis, he made the significant physiological discovery that they belonged to a system of vessels that previous investigators had not fully understood. Bartholin and his colleague, Michael Lyser (1626-1659), determined that the vessels did not carry nutritive fluids that had been derived directly from the digestive organs, but a watery fluid Bartholin considered to result from material changes that occurred in the body's organs.

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Cited references: Cushing M578; Osler 3471; Waller 6752

Gift of John Martin, M.D.