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What, then, are they? someone asks — as though every part must necessarily be either an artery, a vein, a nerve, or a complex of these,As, for example, Aristotle had held; cf. p. 23, note 3. Galen added many new tissues to those described by Aristotle. and as though the truth were not what I am now stating, namely, that every one of the various organs has its own particular substance. For in fact the two bladders — that which receives the urine, and that which receives the yellow bile — not only differ from all other organs, but also from one another. Further, the ducts which spring out like kinds of conduits from the gall-bladder and which pass into the liver have no resemblance either to arteries, veins or nerves. But these parts have been treated at a greater length in my work On the Anatomy of Hippocrates, as well as elsewhere.
