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These veins carry nourishment and natural spirits to all parts of the body. Iecur fons venarum, the liver as the source of the veins, remained through the centuries the watchword of the Galenic physiology. The blood was held to ebb and flow continuously in the veins during life.
It would seem that the goose that lays the golden egg has emigrated to Muscovy. It is the Cichorium endivia of Linnaeus. Cf. Cf. Horace's verse "pinguibus et ficis pastum iecur anseris albi."
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