[173] A characteristic “lesion” in Erasistratus’s pathology.
[174] A certain subordinate place allowed to the horror vacui.
[175] i.e. the parts to which the veins convey blood after it leaves the liver—second stage of anadosis; cf. p. 91, [note 2]; p. 13, [note 5].
[176] What we now call the pulmonary artery. Galen believed that the right ventricle existed for the purpose of sending nutrient blood to the lungs.
[177] Lit. owing to the ongrowth (epiphysis) of membranes; he means the tricuspid valve; cf. p. 314, [note 2]; p. 321, [note 4].
[178] Horror vacui.
[179] But Erasistratus had never upheld this in the case of urinary secretion, cf. p. [99].
[180] This was the characteristically “anatomical” explanation of bile-secretion made by Erasistratus. cf. p. 170, [note 2]. Why, then, says Galen, does not urine, rather than bile, enter the bile-ducts?
[181] Urine, or, more exactly, blood-serum.
[182] Or ducts, canals, conduits, i.e. morphological factors.