Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, the vena salvatella, or vein on the back of the little finger: so called because it used to be opened with supposed efficacy in melancholia and hypochondria.
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Examples
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Bloodletting is not to be used, except the patient's body be very full of blood, and that it be derived from the liver and spleen to the stomach and his vessels, then [4379] to draw it back, to cut the inner vein of either arm, some say the salvatella, and if the malady be continuate, [4380] to open a vein in the forehead.
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