CUTANEOUS AND MUCOUS FOLLICLES. 



Fis. 267. 



6C5 



Cutaneous glands of external meatus auditorius. 1. Section of the skin, magnified three diameter? : 

 2, 2, hairs ; 3, 3, superficial sebaceous glands ; 1, 1, larger and deeper-seated glands, by which the ceru- 

 men is secreted. 2. A hair, perforating the epidermis at 3 ; 1,1, sebaceous glands, with their excretory 

 ducts 2,2; 4, base of the hair, in its double follicle 5,5. 3. Cerumen-gland, formed by the contorted 

 tube, 1, 1, of the excretory duct, 2; 3, vascular trunk and ramifications. The last two figures highly 

 magnified. 



[Fig. 268. 





Cutaneous Follicles or Glands of the Axilla, magnified one-third. (Homer.)] 



treating it with sulphuric acid. This aromatic principle differs sufficiently in 

 the blood of different animals, to enable a person with a delicate sense of 

 smell to determine from what animal any specimen has been procured ; and 

 this fact has been applied with success to juridical investigations. It has even 



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