Lanterna Rally

Author: Microscopical Society of London

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-22

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9781331967637

Excerpt from The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London, Vol. 3 From the time of De Graaf, Ruysch, Lieberkuhn and other celebrated anatomists, the art of injecting the minute blood-vessels of animals and of the human subject with mercury, and with coloured fluids by means of syringe, has been much practised both in this country and abroad, and the science of Anatomy has been wonderfully advanced by its use. The first anatomist who appears to have applied the syringe to the filling of the blood-vessels was Regnerus de Graaf, a Doctor of Medicine, who lived about the middle of the seventeenth century; an engraving and full description of the syringe used by him was published in the year 1667, in a small treatise, entitled 'Tractatulus de usu Syphonis in Anatomia.' Some authors claim the credit of the invention for Swammerdam, who is said to have first employed it in 1667. The fluids used by De Graaf were by him termed tinctures, and were coloured with copper, or with the juices of the leaves of violets or roses, or a solution of gamboge and indigo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.