A discourse on the nature, causes, and cure of corpulency. Illustrated by a remarkable case, read before the Royal Society, November 1757 ... / By Malcolm Flemyng.

  • Flemyng, Malcolm, -1764
Date:
1760
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Credit: A discourse on the nature, causes, and cure of corpulency. Illustrated by a remarkable case, read before the Royal Society, November 1757 ... / By Malcolm Flemyng. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or tiflue are fo framed, as to communicate together all over. Where they are wideft, they contain oil or fat. Where they are too minute for that purpofe, they receive a fluid jelly or moifl: vapour. The fat is a fecretion from the blood, made by the moft Ample fecretory appara¬ tus, to wit, arteries bringing the blood, from which the fat is to be feparated ; and lateral veflels of a lefier diameter ari- fing from thefe arteries, which ftrain off the fat or oil, and convey it to the cells or veficles, where it is to be repofited; while fmall veins, continued with the arteries, re- i turn into the common channel of circula¬ tion that part of the blood, which hath pafled by the mouths of the lateral fecretory canals. The tumidity, with which the oil, when new feparated, abounds, is fucked up by extremely fmall tubules of the venous kind, opening into or communicating with the fatty cells, and fo the fat or oil remains more pure or unmixed. The ufe of the fat is in general to lubri¬ cate the parts, that they may move and flip over one another eaiily, and therefore mu(- B 2 cles