Author: BILS, L. DE
Title: Responso ad monitiones di Johannis ab Horne
Description: Rotterodami, A. Leers, 1661. 4to. w. woodc. vign. on title, 2 engr. pls. (of which 1 fold., 2 small tears rep.). Modern vellum. (80 pp.). Bayle & Thillaye vol. II, pp. 84 - 86: In his "Responsio" 'il y avance plusieurs paradoxes ... il soutient que la lymphe coule du canal thorachique dans les extrémités du corps. Il fait tout cela avec un air si imposant et un ton si décisif, qu'il ose dire que les connaisseurs verront qu'il a copié la nature, et que van Horne n'a consulté que son imagination.': NNBW vol IV, pp. 150/1: DMB c. 148 - 150: Bils, Lodewijk de (1624 -1669): '...an amateur anatomist, who caused considerable sensation in the scientific world ... De Bils claimed to have a method by which corpses could be preserved for many years... De Bils also had a theory on the movement of the chylus and the lymph and assumed an exentric movement of it. He denied the existence of valves in the lymph vessels as had been proved by Ruysch and Swammerdam. This contention provoked a vehement polemic by pamphlets.'BMN vol. I p. 96: Krivatsy, p. 1268: (mentioning 1 plate only): Waller 1072: Not in Wellcome:

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