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Quotation from History of Animals by Aristotle
“But some, by the examination of emaciated persons, have distinguished the origin of the veins, from the appearance of those which are external”
History of Animals, Book III, Ch. II, §2, trans. Richard Cresswell (1862)
Aristotle explains how earlier writers inferred the course of the blood vessels, before quoting Syennesis, Diogenes and Polybus and criticising their method.
Citation: "But some, by the examination of emaciated persons, have distinguished the origin of the veins, from the appearance of those which are external" — Aristotle, History of Animals, Book III, Ch. II, §2, trans. Richard Cresswell (1862). (id aristotle-history-of-animals-q3)
