Diexodus medica de hepatis

could be led to the whole body, than in the vessels destined for distribution; and therefore these obtained an implantation in this flesh in a condensed manner, and were digested through it by a numerous branching.

32. Moreover, the veins are of a spermatic genus, and do not arise from any source as if they were syngeneo congenital/of the same origin; nevertheless, the first implantation of the vena cava is thought to be at the right chamber of the heart, where it appears largest; but crossing the Diaphragma diaphragm, it is received by a wide sinus at the posterior seat of the liver and is only attached there.

33. In this συνάφεια connection/contact with the liver, it spreads out first two larger branches, then a little lower, two smaller ones, somewhat separated from each other, equal in the right and left part for the purpose of exhausting the blood. These veins, indeed, are divided into the smallest vessels and proceed toward the circumference, and are thought to be committed there to the roots of the portal vein, which are similarly divided, or to be continuous with them.

34. The roots of the portal vein, however, beginning as if from capillaries at the extreme circumference of the liver, are gradually collected into larger ones and grow, until near the middle, they all come together into one trunk in the hollow of the liver, where the first entrance into the whole body is made.

35. If there is a continuity of both sets of branches (which we have not been able to perceive with our senses), the origin will not be new; but if it is a discrete communication that suffices for the translation of humors, why shall we not say that the portal vein obtains its first βλάστησιν sprouting/growth in this viscus? Since otherwise, it serves this function with all its branches.

36. ἐξαιμάτωσις sanguification/blood-making, however, is the concoction of chyle by the heat of the liver, so that it becomes nourishment suitable for restoring all parts of the body; where the altering faculty is indeed the chief one that resides in the flesh of the liver; but others—the attracting, retaining, and expelling faculties—provide assistance.