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PHYSIOLOGY 



CHAP. 



Pacini's and lluffiui's corpuscles. The former, already discovered 

 by Vater, were described in de-tail by Pacini (1840), who saw them 



FII:. 10. Two Col.ui-MM/zoni corpuscles connected with a single bifurcated nerve-fibre. (Ruflini.) 

 The ramilied tilii-es within tlie corpuscles pivsi-nt numerous vark-osities, varying in size and 

 appearance. 



adhering to the branches of the nerves that run in the fat under 

 the skin of the palm of the hand and sole of the foot, as small oval 



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Fio. 11. Variety of Golgi-JIazzoni corpuscle, distinct from the preceding because the noil- 

 myelinated nerve-fibre forms a characteristic interlacement in the core. (Crevatin.) 



bulbs, quite visible to the naked eye (Fig. 13). They are too well 

 known to require further description. As is well shown in Fig. 

 14, the Paciuian corpuscle consists of a capsule of finely lamel- 



