This other pair runs through the
throat inside; and from either one of the two there extend veins in
underneath the shoulder blade and towards the hands; and these
appear alongside the veins splenitis and hepatitis as another pair
of veins smaller in size. When there is a pain near the surface of the
body, the physician lances these two latter veins; but when the pain
is within and in the region of the stomach he lances the veins
splenitis and hepatitis. And from these, other veins depart to run
below the breasts.
'There is also another pair running on each side through the
spinal marrow to the testicles, thin and delicate. There is,
further, a pair running a little underneath the cuticle through the
flesh to the kidneys, and these with men terminate at the testicle,
and with women at the womb. These veins are termed the spermatic
veins. The veins that leave the stomach are comparatively broad just
as they leave; but they become gradually thinner, until they change
over from right to left and from left to right.
'Blood is thickest when it is imbibed by the fleshy parts; when
it is transmitted to the organs above-mentioned, it becomes thin,
warm, and frothy.
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