Thomas Wharton's Adenographia

ADENOGRAPHIA is one of a number of important Latin medical works that had not yet been translated, and no edition of it has been printed since 1730. It was the first systematic account of the glands of the human body. Thomas Wharton, the author, was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physiciansduring the middle years of the 17th century; in this period, many important advances in medical knowledge were made at the College,not least by Wharton himself. He discovered the duct which carries saliva from the sub-maxillary gland to the mouth, and studied the umbilical cord. He also made someimportant observations of the lacteal vessels of the thorax and the abdomen, and was the first to name the thyroid and jugular glands.