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lated iissMc and a central core penetrated by tin 1 medullated lihre, 



which rims through it diivei |<> the end, where id l>ranehe,s and 



rinls iii an enlargement. 



I'.etween the largest 1'ariniaii corpuscles, that are plainly visible 

 to tlu 1 naked eye, and those of Golgi-Mazzoni, which can only be 

 detected with the microscope, there is an uninterrupted series of 

 intermediate or transitional forms. One very rare variety of 

 1'aeinian corpuscle found in subcutaneous tissue consists of small 

 spherical corpuscles with an inner core which is also spherical, 

 and nerve-endings represented by a cluster of hulbs (Fig. 15). 



Fi<;. IL'. Ciolgi-.Mazzniii corpuscle. (Cre- 

 vatin.) Besides tli>- inycliuated nerve- 

 tilu-e, a line non - myelinated iiln>' 

 penetrates into the corpuscle and t'unns 

 a network in tin- cap-iiili-, as described 

 by Tiniofeew. 



Km. 13. Nerve of 

 midillc lin.ui'r with 

 I'acinian corpuscles. 

 Natural si/e. (llenli- 

 and Kiilliki-r.) 



The corpuscles which Buffi ni discovered in 1891 have in 

 coiunion with Pacini's that they are found in approximately equal 

 niunhers in subcutaneous cellular tissue, and like the Paciuian 

 bodies are of very variable dimensions. They are cylindrical and 

 -] 'indie-shaped. A capsule consisting of a few thin lamellae 

 closely applied together can be, distinguished from a supporting 

 bundle of h'brillary connective tissue and elastic fibres, between 

 which the nerve-fibres penetrate and expand in the form of a 

 Qon-myelinated ramification. Sometimes the nerve-fibres enter 

 laterally (Kig. 16); at other times they enter at oiie end of the 

 spindle (Fig. 17). 



Itullini's corpuscles also present many variations. The 



