[14]Post-mortem staining of the viscera with bile is very common.
[15]The porta hepatis.
[16]This is a good account of the function of the lymphatic vessels.
[17]The gibbosity of the liver is its curved, upper surface.
[18]The emulgent veins are the renal veins.
[19]This is normal in man but in some animals the right renal vessels arise higher than the left. It will be noted that he speaks from his own experience. It is a pity that he qualifies this statement in the next sentence with a reference to the then current teaching, derived from Galen.
[20]The fallacious idea of the testis filtering off the sperm from the blood brought down to it by the testicular artery lasted a long time. Note too the old fallacy of the left testis producing a female foetus and the right producing a male.
[21]The ureters.
[22]The pleura.
[23]Either Edwardes or the printer was at fault in the form of the Greek script, while the word has more the meaning of diaphragm than of pleura.